Tom Beaulieu

We believe that the electronic medical records will provide some savings further down the road. The immediate benefit is to the patient care at this time. We’re doing it because we do see an immediate benefit to the way we care for our patients.

We were initially responding to the third item down on program delivery details on 8-17. We thought we were responding to health services administration so, yes, we were responding to a different item the first time when we talked about $1.4 million for salaries. We were talking about that item. I just for a minute thought that we were still talking about that line item, but now we’ve moved to the bottom one and that’s what we’re responding to now.

Thank you. The department does not have a regular cycle for reviewing supplementary health benefits.

All calls on medical travel, whether it be medevacs or medical travel, are made by a physician. If a physician has made a decision that they are going to be able to get to the patient quicker through another avenue, that may be a reason for aborting a medical travel or medevac. If we’re talking about something that’s outside of a community, not moving from one point within a community to a point where an individual can get medical travel, then I’m not familiar with why or what the protocol is to abort such a trip.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We didn’t hear the question.

Yes.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The current agreement is scheduled to expire March 31, 2014.

This is for staff of the Department of Health and Social Services, not the authorities. This is for staff that are in Inuvik.

Thank you. We are not familiar with any type of difference in what they would cover for travel and what we bill back. So when we bill back, when we have an NIHB client that travels, we bill back the actual to NIHB.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have the information here that specifically provides the role of the whole medical travel area, the medevac area. What I know about that so far is that the medical travel, essentially, is taking people from the communities into a medical point where they need to go to get a service and that could be done through a medevac or it could be done through regular medical travel. But I don’t have any information indicating that we have to go away from the outside of the range of where there might be some ground ambulance service and how we go and get those people. I...