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Quebec鈥檚 long-awaited digital health record rollout is being presented as a major step toward more connected, modern health care. The system promises to reduce fragmented patient information and make it easier for records to follow patients across facilities.

The project鈥檚 growing price tag, however, is already drawing concern. Initially estimated at $1.5 billion, the project is now expected to cost at least $2.5 billion, and Samer Faraj, a professor at 91涩漫鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management, warns that may be only the beginning.

鈥淵ou鈥檙e looking at $5 billion of total cost, possibly more, rising quickly and at least a billion dollars of additional costs yearly,鈥� says Faraj.聽