Montreal IT company under scrutiny for alleged poor turnout of medical database project.

A Montreal-based IT company currently under scrutiny for the Obamacare website in the U.S. is also in trouble here at home for failing to finish a project to digitize medical records. 

In a report by the Gazette, the latest provincial government data released this week say that information-technology firm CGI was one of the companies responsible for a project called Dossier Santé Québec. 

The project has numerous doctors and specialists collaborate and document each detail in a patient’s file in digital form.

Launched in 2006, it had a price tag of $563 million, but it has ballooned to $1.6 billion. 

The project was supposed to done in 2010, and only a small number of health institutions are connected to the system. 

Quebec’s auditor-general called the project  DSQ “a failure." Its target date will now be in 2016, six years past its intended deadline. 

The Gazette contacted CGI for a comment. Without further details, they replied back saying that they were “not involved in Dossier Santé Québec.”