7th report : Seventh report

In its consultations, the PTC learned that there are funding gaps at the pre-commercial phase, which is research intensive, and at the pre-IPO-stage just prior to getting the product to market and the beginning of large-scale development. [...] The Council recommends that the province pursue the strategies outlined in the study to advance the power technology industry and secure BC’s position as a world leader in the power technology sector. [...] The PTC, therefore, continues to urge the province to maintain the momentum to achieve the goal of making British Columbia one of the world’s top technology centres. [...] Possibilities for such access include the ability to confirm the status of a scheduled clinical event and modify it; to confirm that a diagnostic test has been delivered to the patient’s physician for review; to confirm that the patient is on a scheduled list for surgery and that the expected wait-time is consistent with the priority of the treatment; to identify comparable waiting times in other [...] The development of an appropriate model and method of private physician's EMR is complex and require answers to the following questions: • What is the patient’s right to privacy in the personal patient-physician relationship, and how will this impact data exchange and access to information?