There is an interesting model that's been developed in the Ontario health technology assessment, and I think that would be very well worth looking at as a model for Canada. It provides much more upstream.... If this is your innovation, these are the kinds of things you need to collect, this is the data you need to collect in order to get into the health care system. People hate developing the technology, and all of a sudden you're at a brick wall that says you're not getting into the health care system because you haven't shown it's more cost-effective than the devices we already have. You need to go upstream, educate the industry, as it's moving in, and provide these pre-assessments so you have things like an environmental scan. You're actually working in partnership with the industry. That's the Ontario model, and they love it. I think we need to set up a framework. What is it going to take in order for new technology to be adopted?
On April 23rd, 2013. See this statement in context.