I'd be pleased to give my answer.
This network has been funded by the Public Health Agency since 2008. Currently we have about 420 physicians contributing data on almost a half a million patients over every three months, so that we can now follow eight different chronic diseases over time and be able to report back around surveillance. These networks are in seven provinces so we're not quite coast to coast to coast, but pretty close.
This is a real opportunity to be able to track chronic disease in a way that we haven't been able to do before. We can collect information around medication. We have information on heights, weights, blood pressures—things that you cannot get from other types of administrative data.
With the opportunities for using this to look at chronic disease in Canada and to feed information back to physicians on how they're managing patients with chronic disease so that they can think about practice improvement and also as research opportunities, I'm perhaps a little biased, but it's a very powerful tool.