Opinion: Let's get with the times on medical communications technology

The principal method of communication between doctors in Quebec is still the fax machine. Quebec is years behind other provinces in deploying health-care technology. We also still use pagers and paper in the digital, mobile age.
When I started working as a doctor in Quebec, just under a decade ago, we were still faxing requests to pharmacists for patients’ medication lists. If you were working in the emergency department, you had to hope that the patient having a heart attack had the