Health committee  I expect the main reason is that there are complexities, as there always will be when it comes to dealing with people and energies, and determining supply and determining need. It can be expensive. The reports that you have listed have fundamentally not gone anywhere, which is wh

Health committee  I'll give one example, of which there are many, and I would be very interested if Dr. Gratzer had a comment on it. One thing we find constantly wherever we go is that mental health and addictions are a real problem, not in just the incidence and prevalence, but also, people who

Health committee  If I could add one thing to that, there are a lot of metrics that are very useful and they can be at an individual level across specialty or they can be geographic. One of my favourites is the ambulatory care sensitive condition rates, which are measures of people who are admitte

Health committee  I think the approach is to undertake the analyses required to use a single methodology across jurisdictions. Using that single methodology would enable us to bring the information together and start to look at it nationally. As long as we have 13 autonomous health care systems, t

Health committee  I think the issue is this: there are really good data out there, but, as you indicated, the data frequently don't get used. Sometimes the data holders are not aware of how good their data are. As data start to get used, people start to get excited about them. On the question abo

Health committee  Thank you. Over the years, without calling it provider-centric care, it has clearly been provider-centric care. That is because of the nature of how health systems evolve through looking for evidence. I go back to wise words of Steven Lewis from Saskatchewan, many years ago. He

Health committee  Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to meet with the committee. I have prepared a brief opening statement to provide context for the nature of our work and some of the lessons that we have learned. Health Intelligence has undertaken related work with a team of fou