Saskatchewan Health Authority: AIMS High, Misses Spectacularly

What bugs me the most is everyone - and I mean EVERY single health care stakeholder - saw this coming. Why do we keep letting it get to this?

We should probably talk about the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and its multi-year, multi-million dollar failed rollout of its latest creation, the Administrative Information Management System (AIMS).

Described as a “new business administration system” designed to replace “82 non-integrated systems with a single software solution”, AIMS is important enough to have its own government website.

First mentioned in the Ministry of Health’s 2018-19 annual report after the Sask Party government gave itself an unbudgeted extra $45-million, supposedly to pay for its inception, the AIMS project has been kicking around for almost five years.

Frankensteining it to life has sucked huge quantities of time, money and resources out of the Saskatchewan health care system.