Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to all of you today for providing such interesting and informative presentations.
Dr. Cafazzo, I want to start with you. I think it was slide—I can't really tell—2 or 3 from your presentation, which unfortunately I can't read right now, but it's about the costing.
I think what all of your presentations implied to some extent is that e-health implies patient self-care, as your presentation does, and probably a higher amount of home care for folks. There's been a lot of discussion and justification of e-health and home care on the basis of the economics of it all.
I wonder if we are accounting for the costs. I don't question that it's more economic and that there are other benefits to that in your presentation, but I wonder if we're actually accounting for the costs of home care properly. This occurs to me because I was asked to speak at a conference on respite services in Canada, and in my research into the issue I found there were enormous hours being put into health care by non-health care professionals at home, and an enormous burden with health care outcomes on the folks people rely on, depend on, for their so-called self-care or home care.
When we do the economics of home care, are we including all the right measures for this?