Why this exists
Nobody should get lost in their own health system.
The record is written about the patient, by people who cannot see each other’s work, and the patient is the only person in the room who cannot read it.
Your record exists. It is just in pieces.
Canadian health records are scattered across clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and labs. Each one is an accountable custodian of a fragment. None of them holds the whole.
Roughly 29% of physicians can share patient information outside their own practice, and fewer than half of Canadians can reach their own record at all. Disconnected records are estimated to cost Canada $9.4 billion a year (CMAJ, 2026).
The layer in between
MedUnity is the trusted infrastructure between Canada’s health custodians and the patients whose records they hold. It is the Canadian-owned layer that lets a patient bring the fragments together and direct who sees what, for how long, and why.
Every access is refused unless the patient permitted it, and every access is recorded in a ledger nobody — including MedUnity — can alter.
Not a competing record. Not another silo. The rails, the consent, and the proof.
The longer plan
The patient record is the first stage. After it comes Canadian-owned health data infrastructure, and then a Canadian-built alternative to the foreign systems that hold most of this country’s clinical data.
The aim is to grow the Canadian-owned share of a market dominated by foreign vendors — not to compete with the Canadian health technology companies already in it.
Four stages
Marked for what is built and what is intended. Two of them cross a regulatory line and carry the gate that has to clear first.
Stage one — the patient record. Being built.
One place a patient can open, with consent and an unalterable access log underneath it.
Stage two — connecting to custodians. Intended.
Records flowing from the systems that hold them. Connecting a patient by a provincial health number is gated on a legal opinion and a provincial data-sharing agreement, and neither is in hand.
Stage three — Canadian-owned infrastructure. Intended.
The rails themselves, Canadian-owned and independently governed, rather than a Canadian layer on top of somebody else’s.
Stage four — a Canadian-built alternative. Intended.
Clinical decision support, if it is ever built, is gated on a Health Canada medical device licensing pathway. Nothing interpretive ships before that licence does.
Who we are not arguing with
Not your doctor, and not your clinic. They are working inside the same fragmentation you are, with less room to complain about it.
Not the Canadian health technology companies already in this market. They are complements and potential partners, and a domestic market that grows is one they benefit from too.
What is worth naming is the shape of the problem: roughly 70% of this country’s acute and hospital care runs on foreign-owned infrastructure, and a record that will not move is a business model rather than a technical limitation.
If this is your problem too
Clinics, custodians, funders and people who want to work on it — there is a door for each.