Fréchette Rejects $1 Billion Estimate for Health Agency IT Project
- Christine Fréchette rejected suggestions that Santé Québec’s SIFA health-care IT project will cost $1 billion.
- Radio-Canada reported that an analysis estimated SIFA could cost $1 billion, compared with its initial $96 million estimate.
- France-Élaine Duranceau said the project’s original price estimate was inaccurate.
- Fréchette said $329 million was pre-authorized, while Duranceau said SIFA could save $1.2 billion by replacing 41 outdated systems.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Fréchette rejects $1 billion estimate for health agency IT project
QUÉBEC - Coalition Avenir Québec leader Christine Fréchette is rejecting suggestions that an IT project in the health-care system will cost a billion dollars.
QUEBEC — The caquist chief and prime minister Christine Fréchette rejected on Wednesday the estimates of cost overruns exceeding one billion dollars for another computer fiasco, SIFA, in the health network. As a media outlet after the second television debate of the election campaign, in Noovo, she spoke out [...]
Quebec health/financial system to cost $1 billion?
MONTREAL - Campaigning politicians blasted premier Christine Fréchette earlier this week, as a Radio-Canada report claimed a provincial IT project that aims to update and transform healthcare financial systems. Despite obvious warnings and a call from officials not to proceed with the project, the Cabinet gave the green light on July 15 and put money
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