Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 ON
Jul 31, 2026
· 5 min read
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Quebec will keep 'axe the fax' prescription platform that was cancelled by Ottawa
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Article Excerpt
MONTREAL NEWS
Quebec will keep ‘axe the fax’ prescription platform that was cancelled by Ottawa
Health-care professionals are lauding the agreement, but the costs aren't publicly disclosed.
The province's order of pharmacists says the Prescription Québec tool reduces "reliance on paper and fax machines." (GETTY IMAGES)
By
Kalina Laframboise
July 31, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
Last Updated: July 31, 2026 at 2:28 p.m.
After Ottawa recently pulled the plug on the service, Quebec is moving forward with a digital program modernizing how prescriptions are sent and received, but the sums involved in the ag…
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