Look, you're totally right. We're lagging behind. Let's face it, let's admit it, and let's do something about it. I don't think it is a question of research. I think we have the technology. We're funding a lot of exciting new technologies, for instance, using new apps to access health records or monitor your blood pressure. The difficulty occurs in the lag between these discoveries and their implementation into the health care system. This is still quite a bit of an issue. We definitely have to support more of what we call knowledge translation initiatives to ensure that these discoveries are actually translated into use, because that's the medicine of tomorrow.
On October 18th, 2012. See this statement in context.