Health committee  I would say that one of the barriers, as has been mentioned, is the fact that there is not a lot of evidence for a lot of the stuff. It's partly because the research models out there are somewhat inadequate to be able to address some of that. There are oodles of apps and they'r

Health committee  It's Cameron.

Health committee  There are a lot of different roles that can be played. One of the things to think about, though, is having the right information to make healthy choices. There is also the idea of empowerment, which is important. The federal government could support the education and deployment o

Health committee  If it could be done at the federal level, I have a suggestion also around the idea of supporting research in this area. CIHR, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, does not have a panel on medical and health informatics or anything like that. There is no panel for anything

Health committee  I don't know much from a regular choice standpoint. Again, from my experience in having worked with the private sector as well as the public sector and academics, I would say that we tend not to have a funding envelope that allows this stuff to be really hyper-innovative. Some pe

Health committee  That's a complex question. Usually, complex questions deserve complex answers, but because we only have three minutes, I'll give you a simple one.

Health committee  All right: one minute. I would say that one of the key things is to really engender within the whole health system a creativity about how these tools can be used. In North America we have a tendency to have one phone, one person. That's not the way it's used in a lot of other p

Health committee  I think one of the answers is to use the concept of health literacy. I think we need to build the literacy and the critical thinking capacity around the technologies as they apply to regular life. I think there has been a tendency towards leading with the tools, that toolset inst

Health committee  Thank you. It's my real pleasure to be invited as an individual to speak before you today on a topic that has been near and dear to my heart. I was talking with Craig and Mary beforehand, and I realized that it's been about 20 years I've been doing this work, which, if you kno

Health committee  It's one of those things that have evolved, but initially it was designed intentionally to be a little amorphic. It stands for Complexity E-health Network Systems and Evaluations.

Health committee  It stands for “Complexity”, actually.

Health committee  “E” is for E-health, and “N” is for Networks, “S” for Systems, and “E” for Evaluation.

Health committee  It's interesting that it started like that, but “cense” also, the definition of that spelling is to perfume and to make a little more palatable.