Bidders on a provincewide electronic health record (EHR) system in Nova Scotia allege the province mishandled the health services contract. The planned purchase of the EHR system is expected to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the tender for the One Person One Record (OPOR) allowed only two companies - Cerner and Allscripts - bid. Questions are being raised about the process and whether it will yield the best deal possible for the province. OPOR would replace the three existing networks in hospitals with a single clinical information system. A company not included in the final tender, Evident, claims the competition was rigged by members of the health authority to favour the finalists, while Epic was not allowed to even take part in the competition. Meditech, the current provider of EHR hospital services in much of the province, was also dropped from the final tender list.
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