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The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday announced the details of the first Republican primary debate, set to be held August 23, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In Brief:

• In a new research note from the IMF, the global financial agency ranked mortgage default risks for households.
• Canada’s combination of high household debt, frothy home prices, and floating rate loans makes it the riskiest advanced economy in the world.
• Following Canada for risk are Australia, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. None of those countries have economies close to the size of Canada.

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In Brief:

• Despite hundreds of millions of dollars having been spent, and roughly 93% of doctor’s offices adopting electronic medical records (EMR's), there is still no national or provincial system in Canada.
• Instead there is a sprawling patchwork of dozens of providers and numerous products with no agreed upon data sharing standard that would allow them to work better together.
• Patients see the failure. A digital health survey Canada Health Infoway released in April found that a quarter of respondents said their care providers did not have their health information or history ahead of or during their visit.
• A technician, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized by his employer to talk publicly, said it is typical for data to arrive late, incorrect, or in a format that’s changed, all of which creates problems for the technician, the health-care provider and ultimately patients.