I'd like to point out that I became associated with the field of health informatics at the University of Victoria in the mid-eighties. It is an emerging area, and it is an absolutely essential area. Since the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act was passed in 1958, and then the Medical Care Act in 1968, followed with the continuing care work during the 1970s, we've been very much institutionally focused, so we've been counting a lot of widgets, a lot of activity in that way.
There is a paradigm that is emerging now, which is turning our attention to exactly the words you have used: what are the outcomes? Because we're in the very early days at the moment, it seems hopeless, but I can assure you it is not. There are material ways of being able to have conversations around what it is we want to measure, coming up with those indicators, and agreeing on what they ought to be across the country.
From my perspective, the conversation you've facilitated here is the beginning of advancing that agenda. I think it's an important one.