Health committee  Thank you. Just briefly, one of the things, going back to what I mentioned in the opening presentation, was about shifting some of the CIHR dollars to more applied research that can look at health services that can look at e-health and technology. I think we need a mix of both

Health committee  Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't have anything to add to that.

Health committee  Oh, sorry. As I pointed out, the CIHR funds can go through a balance. Right now there are the four health pillars within CIHR: biomedical, population health, behavioural social and clinical health services. I think there could be more shifting of funds to more of these applied

Health committee  I agree. In our interactions with primary care physicians, with respect to our projects, we're getting 20% to 25% saying yes. These would be the most progressive physicians, the ones with EMRs. Some of them might have nurses in their clinics. We're not getting the engagements of

Health committee  I agree with Dr. Price about having it a part of current processes in schedules for physicians. I don't have anything else to add to that.

Health committee  Yes, certainly. One of the things that can help is for patients to have the ability to report their symptoms, patient-reported outcomes, and for that information to be transferred, and maybe in the future to populate that physician's EMR so that right when a patient comes in, th

Health committee  Yes, I have just a brief one. My focus is on supporting of self-management. There are definitely many different projects going on in the U.S., in Australia, and in the U.K. as well. There's also a lot going on within Canada. Often small clinics will create their own solutions w

Health committee  Yes. Thank you, Mr. Wilks. What we're looking at here is basically trying to change behaviours. What you're asking is no different from how we get people, regardless of where they are, to be physically active. How we do that is to make these solutions the easy solutions, so ther

Health committee  I agree that there is a stopgap and sometimes a disconnect between the federal research funding and then the implementation. At the end of the day, we're all here. All the researchers want to make a difference and want to see their projects actually on the go and working. I ment

Health committee  I'll just make a couple of clarifications. With the heart rate, this is a regular off-the-shelf heart rate monitor that people strap on. It can record their heart rate when they exercise. When they come home they can link the monitor to their computer and then it sends the inform

Health committee  That's an excellent question. I have personally experienced a number of those challenges that you've raised. My domain is in research, so most of the projects I'm working on have been funded through CIHR, and some of it through the Michael Smith Foundation, which is the B.C. he

Health committee  It's a pleasure for me to be here. I'm excited about the proceedings in the next couple of hours.

Health committee  It's a bit warmer than what you have there in Ottawa.

Health committee  Thank you again for the invitation to speak at this committee. I'm quite excited about this topic. As we all know, the use of e-health and telehealth has been met with substantial enthusiasm as a way to bridge gaps in health care and geographical inequities of care. This has bee