Health committee  I've just started using Twitter.

Health committee  You know what to change.

Health committee  We started out with pharmacies and the pharmacists because they were ready and they wanted to join up with us. They felt their role in the community would put them in a good place to help clients understand their risk. Now we're starting to talk to other parts of the private sect

Health committee  I'd be glad to, and I'll keep this brief. As the federal public health agency, a big part of our role is surveillance of chronic disease. That means we're working across the country with the provinces and territories, with StatsCan, and CIHI, the Canadian Institute for Health In

Health committee  Just very quickly on CANRISK, we spent about two years working with our provincial and territorial counterparts in communities, testing the validity of the tool so that we weren't putting anything out there before we were sure it would be a benefit to those clients using it. But

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  It's a web-based tool, so it's Internet-based. It's 12 questions. You go on the questionnaire. You answer each question. As you answer, information pops up and tells you about healthy living, about things you can do to change the way you're currently living if you have risk facto

Health committee  At this point we don't, but we're in the process of modifying CANRISK to ensure that's it's scientifically valid for first nations populations. Once we've done that, we will have it in those languages.

Health committee  Yes, I'd be delighted to do so. That's a really exciting partnership.

Health committee  Absolutely. As governments have come together around the childhood obesity challenge, we're looking at ways we can support families in providing healthy choices to their children and reinforcing that message in schools and of course in workplaces. Even if you're fighting childhoo

Health committee  Thank you very much. In the case of CANRISK, pharmacists act as intermediaries between patients and technology. Patients decide on their own whether they want to use the technology. If they choose to do so, that is great, but they are provided with assistance. That is very impor

Health committee  I'd like to reinforce what Peter said about ensuring that there's a scientific base underneath whatever application the public is choosing. For example, the Public Health Agency, of course, recommends CANRISK because we developed it and we know what science is behind it. We're no

Health committee  Madam Chair, honourable members of the committee, I am very pleased to be here today to speak to the use of innovative technology to support the prevention and management of chronic diseases. As the committee members have heard before, chronic diseases are a significant burden t

Health committee  Yes. But there are gaps in information, and these are the gaps we're now starting to fill through other types of studies. The neurological health study is not just looking at one source of data. It's looking at data on surveys that are being conducted by Statistics Canada. It's d

Health committee  No, we don't. There is a great deal of data collection that's being coordinated through the Canadian Institute for Health Information, largely around health services data and population health data—but largely health services data. That tends to be a focus of their work, as they'