Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming today. I feel like you've provided us with so much information, it's hard to know where to begin to follow up.
My colleagues will actually address some of the questions as they relate to first nations, so I won't deal with that; you'll hear that later.
I'll go back to the slides that were put up for the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation. This may be obvious to you, Dr. Cafazzo, but I'm not sure it's obvious to all of us. In your slides—I don't know whether we can get them back up there—on page 3 of your handout, it talks about the improved health outcomes for home dialysis, and you list, as you said, these awesome outcomes.
I actually don't understand why. What is it that caused the improvement? Was it just being better off at home? It's not clear.
I have one other question.You listed another one about blood pressure with a Blackberry, and you said there was a 20% drop in risk of heart attack or stroke—that's on page 6. Again, I'm just not quite clear on what's happening that causes it to happen. I do have one other question, so maybe I could put them both out there.
Maybe all of you could address the second question. I think what you're telling us is incredible. The concern I have is about accessibility. How do we make sure that these issues are addressed across the board? To hear what Manitoba is doing is really exciting. I'd like to know what you think Infoway should be doing more of to make sure that you're completing your project in Manitoba or elsewhere, and how do we ensure that there is equity across the country?
We had one witness at the health committee last year who said that Canada was a country of pilot projects, and everybody laughed. In actual fact, it's really true, so we have all of these amazing projects going on, but how do we ensure that there is some sense of sustainability and continuity, and a sense of equity across the country? To me, this is going to be a question that comes up again and again in this study we're doing.
I'd like you to address that, but could I briefly get the first question answered first? I didn't quite understand it.