The provincial government is providing $300,000 annually over the next three years to expand digital health-care library services in Northern Ontario.
On July 4 in Sault Ste. Marie, Health Minister Tony Clement made the announcement to expand the Regional Library Service from 11 sites to 40 in an effort to retain physicians in the North.
The service provides access to the Northern Academic Health Sciences Network based in Thunder Bay and Greater Sudbury, the future homes of the dual campus of the northern medical school.
The province is also committing $1 million over three years for the Digital Health Library project, run by Hamilton's McMaster University. The project provides health information and health alerts relating to specialty areas such as Aboriginal health, geriatric care and rural medicine.
