In terms of interpreting data, one of the strategic directions the Health Council has determined it's going to take over the next five years is to actually look at multiple sources of data and try to create more of a story that speaks to Canadians about where there is value for money in the system, about the things that we're doing right, about the areas where we should be doing things differently and so on, and perhaps place less emphasis on trying to collect comparable data when there are none.
I think we can add value to the health system and help inform the public of Canada about choices to be made by working collaboratively with our colleagues from CIHI, Statistics Canada, and many other sources, in terms of gathering data from a variety of places, interpreting it, and beginning to be clear about how we can make decisions about where we need to go. We have to make a lot of choices in the health system, but we also need to get a bit clearer about where it is we're trying to go, because it's pretty hard to develop indicators and measures about everything and anything.