• 320 emergency room patients will have an information gap, resulting in an average increased stay of 1.2 hours

Kramer said her decision to hire consultants without a public tender was necessary because of her agency's lack of expertise in technology and the tight deadlines eHealth was working on. "We are not a tech company or an organization that is about buying computers. That is why we have to look outside of the agency," she said.

"It was within the law and I have the mandate to hire consultants without public bidding if the situation requires it," she added.

Kramer said, the consultants she hired had worked with the government's e-health initiative before and had gone through previous scrutiny.

Examples of the lucrative contracts signed out by eHealth were $915,160 to health-care consulting firm Courtyard Group and two contracts worth $1 million to Accenture Inc., the CBC reported.