Doctors Protest CorCare Electronic Records System

0:00It's March 26th. This is Vancouver News today, powered by AI. Doctors in the province have signed a petition urging the health authority to rethink the launch of the new core-care electronic record system and revise the agreement doctors must sign to use it. Many community physicians, especially those nearing retirement, still rely on paper files and Dr. Bolu Oganyemi worries that mandating a sudden switch could push them to retire early. What is a big issue here? Since about 30% of people in the province lack a family doctor already. The agreement also requires doctors to pay for any investigations into data breaches, even if they did nothing wrong. Experts like Jacob Shelley from the University of Western Ontario note that covering legal costs when accused is common, but they question what? Support the health authority will provide to help doctors secure their systems in the first place, leaving the debate very much alive.