Evidence of meeting #82 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was patients.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Kim Elmslie  Director General, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada
Heather Sherrard  Vice-President Clinical Services, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Robyn Tamblyn  Scientific Director, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Peter Selby  Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, As an Individual

5:25 p.m.

Scientific Director, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dr. Robyn Tamblyn

Yes. At the moment, we've assembled an international advisory panel made up of industry funders, consumers, scientists, and clinicians to help us decide how we should move this whole agenda forward in Canada in regard to learning from the lessons of others and actually being able to benefit from innovations.

For example, there are some very interesting innovations that have come out of Israel. We should try them out here in Canada and start doing this bigger exchange. I think it probably will amplify and accelerate the adoption of the coolest things on the planet, things that are really going to make a change. With that, we've involved the European Union—

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joy Smith

I'm so sorry, Doctor. I've just been told that the bells are ringing. I'm obligated now to come to a close. I had more questions.

I would like to thank all of you so very much for coming today and contributing to the innovation study we're doing.

Committee members, thank you as well.

The meeting is adjourned.