Certainly. There are two or three. One of them relates to identifying the patients who need palliative care going forward and tracking them on a large scale across a whole region to see where they are going, what services they are using, and what the impact is of different models .
I've been having meetings, for example, in the Durham region. If we implement these things throughout the region and do the work to see the impact and how we can learn from that.... The whole concept of using models, studying models, and the impact of different models and different decisions on large-scale deployment is an important area.
One of the challenges we face is that in the data that we have—large databases across the provinces—it is difficult to identify who is a palliative patient. We don't have very robust data.
I've been meeting, for example, with colleagues at the Canadian Institute for Health Information, CIHI, and there are gaps there that we need to address. If organizations like that were given additional resources, they would be able to start studying in more detail the palliative care needs across the country and how services are being used.