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Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. On behalf of the Canadian Institute for Health Information, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the standing committee. I am speaking to you today from the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Anishinabek first nation, the Haudenosaunee Co

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question, Mr. Chair. You're correct. CIHI did actually share some information quite recently about how the long-term care sector in the country had been quite hard hit. Overall, looking across all age groups, Canada's death rate from COVID has actua

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  That's correct.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  We do collect that information and we have quite detailed information on the patients who would be using these services. One of the challenges is that it flows a little more slowly because it's based on discharge data, so it's not available as quickly as we might like during a pa

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  Yes. There are a few small gaps, but in general we're getting good data flows from the provinces and territories.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  I believe that would be possible, and I will take a look at the.... The numbers change daily, but we will endeavour to bring you some of that information after the meeting.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  We believe that having as much detailed data available as possible is critical to understanding, planning and managing health services. We've worked for quite a long time with affected communities to develop what we call our equity standards. Those talk about income, sex, gender—

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  We have some baseline data, particularly on hospital beds and ICU beds, and more recently, I would say over the last few months, we have been collecting information from provinces and territories on that, so we have both historical baseline data and more up-to-date information.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  That's in the last several weeks.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  I think creating the infrastructure to have more timely hospital data would be a critical piece to support public health surveillance. The hospital data is very rich, and it's a fabulous resource for both health system managers and researchers to follow patients over a long cours

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. Researchers are a big customer of CIHI. I spoke of 500 data requests. Many of those were from researchers looking for information to do modelling work to help predict the impacts of the pandemic on the health system as well as to model rest

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris

Health committee  CIHI data could be linked to testing data, because I believe both of them have a unique identifier.

July 7th, 2020Committee meeting

Kathleen Morris