You do.
Evidence of meeting #58 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was drugs.
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Evidence of meeting #58 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was drugs.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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NDP
Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East, BC
Just to follow that up, I know we'll be hearing about electronic health records, but it seems to me that it's one good example where there can be a huge benefit, but where negatives also exist if you have multiple systems that come into play.
Under the Canada Health Act, people are meant to be able to move across the country and access health care, but if there isn't some kind of uniformity, and there are multiple jurisdictions, I'm curious to know whether or not anybody is monitoring that. Is there any work under way on that front?
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President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Well, that's what Infoway is doing, really, but the complexity of our jurisdiction in health care explains why we're not Denmark.
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President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
We're not Denmark. Denmark has full implementation of health records.
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President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
I'll let you answer that one.
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
I wish I had an answer.
I think it speaks a lot to the way we deliver health care in this system, with 13 provinces and 6 federal programs for it. That's my personal opinion.
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President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
I would agree with that.
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NDP
Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East, BC
Supposedly we do have these agreements, right? We're told that these agreements exist. I guess we'll explore this more to know what the actual obstructions are that prevent us from doing this, because it's been talked about for a very long time.
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President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
—we've made progress, in all fairness. There are some remarkable programs that exist now in more specific domains.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Yes.
Thank you very much.
We are very excited to have you here today. This has been a wonderful conversation. Thank you for all your insightful comments.
With that, committee, thank you for all your questions.
The meeting is adjourned.