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HealthCareCAN

The national voice of healthcare organizations and hospitals

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Identifying Health as a Key Player in the Digital Economy

COVID-19 update
For information on our activities related to COVID-19, please visit our page Mobilizing to respond to COVID-19

Use of digital solutions and connectivity is growing rapidly in the health sector. Essential services increasingly depend on digital systems and these systems are becoming an increasingly significant part of the country’s critical infrastructure. The more we rely on these digital solutions, the more vulnerable we become if they should fail. The number, significance, and complexity of cyberattacks is increasing, with important implications for Canada’s health sector. This trend reinforces the rising importance of  cybersecurity to the resilience of our critical infrastructure.

Read our 2021 Pre-Budget Brief

our clarion call

Digital health solutions will improve access to care for Canadians, find cures and treatments for diseases, and increase the efficiency of the health care system as a whole. Further investments in the area of digital health and health data cannot be postponed.

action needed

For Canada’s health system to take advantage of the ongoing progress in the field of big data analytics, HealthCareCAN strongly encourages the federal government to:

  1. Substantially invest over five years through Canada’s research hospitals and academic health sciences centres in order to develop meaningful digital health data platforms and applications;
  2. Work with industry, legislators, privacy commissioners, clinicians and patients;
  3. Undertake evaluation of their clinical benefits, and advance their use through the rest of the health system.

Benefits of investing in digital health

Cost Savings

Better use of data and analytics could save the health system $10 billion a year

Increased productivity

Digital health systems could act as a catalyst, boosting productivity by up to $408 million

Improved health

Treatments have been radically improved as a result of adopting digital technologies

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Canada’s leaders must prioritize crumbling health infrastructure

Laying a strong foundation for a pan-Canadian approach to health care must start with federal investment in health infrastructure.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses and gaps in our patchwork Canadian health system. However, the COVID-19 crisis has also given us the unique opportunity to see how best to rebuild our system to better meet current challenges and those sure to come. For the federal government, Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne provides an important opportunity to increase support for health care infrastructure, a move that will have a significant, positive, and long-lasting impact on the health of Canadians.

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Time for federal leadership

Healthcare quality and outcomes hindered by access issues

This article reviews perceptions of Canada’s public and health professionals regarding access and quality of healthcare. Principal data sources were 13 sequential Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys, from 1998 to 2018. A persistent and growing issue in all regions of the country is concern around timely access to care. This concern about timely access involves all major components of healthcare delivery and is anticipated to worsen. Sub-optimal access continues to undermine quality of care.

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Cybersecurity in Health: We’re in this together

As the national voice of Canada’s hospitals and healthcare organizations, HealthCareCAN is partnering with organizations in an effort to create and sustain a dialogue between cybersecurity experts and health leaders, and to cultivate cybersecurity capacity and expertise within Canada’s health sector.

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Our Submission to Finance Canada

BigData

Digital Health And Data Platforms

An Opportunity For Canadian Excellence In Evidence-Based Health Research

Rapid growth in the volume, speed of transmission, and variety of data, otherwise known as ‘big data’, challenges traditional approaches to data storage, management, and analysis. As the sharing and variety of health data continues to expand, insights that could change care for individuals, groups and even society as a whole are buried in these data.

ReportIssue Brief

Related Reading

Canadians agree: More federal government health leadership needed in a COVID world

December 9, 2020

HealthCareCAN Board speaks with Health Minister Hajdu about health system needs

November 2, 2020

Canada’s leaders must prioritize crumbling health infrastructure

September 22, 2020

Will COVID-precipitated advances in the use of digital health in Canada persist or backslide in the “next normal”?

September 3, 2020

The First Wealth, is Health

HealthCareCAN's 2021 Pre-Budget Brief | August 18, 2020

Access and quality of health care in Canada: Insights from 1998 to the present

August 12, 2020

Federal Budget 2021: HealthCareCAN doubles-down on commitments to members

August 7, 2020

COVID-19 AND CYBERSECURITY: Cyber criminals not deterred by lockdowns

August 3, 2020

Listen: An interview with Paul-Émile Cloutier about federal action needed to keep patient information safe

June 7, 2020

Hospitals 'overwhelmed' by cyberattacks fuelled by booming black market - an Interview with HealthCareCAN's Paul-Émile Cloutier

CBC News | March 17, 2020

BUILDING TO FEDERAL BUDGET 2020: Policy Brief for Members

March 9, 2020

FEDERAL MINISTERS’ MANDATE LETTERS: Policy Brief for Members

March 4, 2020

HealthCareCAN & Bruyère Continuing Care appear before the Standing Committee on Finance

February 7, 2020

Cybersecurity in health: We’re in this together

December 19, 2019

Federal government commitment to strengthen health care must begin now

December 5, 2019

Real federal leadership needed, it’s time to shape the future of Canada’s health system

November 21, 2019

The future of health in Canada is now

November 6, 2019

Cloutier: In this federal election, let's talk about funding health infrastructure

September 16, 2019

Green Healthcare: The Missing Piece in Canada’s Climate Response

HealthCareCAN's 2020 Pre-Budget Brief | August 15, 2019

Digital health takes major step forward with Innovation Fund announcements

May 23, 2019

Digital Health and Data Platforms: An Opportunity for Canadian Excellence in Evidence-Based Health Research

Submitted to Finance Canada | January 25, 2019

Infographic: An Innovative Federal Approach to Health Care

October 30, 2018

Moving Forward for Cybersafe Healthcare: Insights from the Canadian Summit on Healthcare Cybersecurity

September 10, 2018

Declaration of commitment to cybersafe healthcare

June 10, 2018

Key Takeaways from HealthCareCAN's Summit on Cyber Security

March 14, 2018

HealthCareCAN commends federal government for investing in science and research

February 27, 2018

Critical Infrastructure in Canada's Health Sector, Part B: A Focus on Cybersecurity

May 31, 2017

Leveraging up the Canadian Advantage: The Hidden Economic and Innovation Engine of Canada’s Research Hospital Sector

HealthCareCAN's brief to Canada’s Innovation Agenda | September 29, 2016

Driving Innovation in Healthcare - An Engine for Economic Growth and Prosperity

Speaking Notes for 2016 Pre-Budget Meeting with Minister of Finance | January 20, 2016

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    • Champion Leading Practices
      • Antimicrobial Resistance
      • Cyber Security
      • Cultural Safety
      • Mental Health
      • Opioid Crisis
      • Patient Safety
    • Advocacy in Action
      • Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research
      • The Big Impact of Emerging Health Research Institutes
      • Building the Health Infrastructure of Tomorrow
      • Canada as a World Leading Destination for Clinical Trials
      • Considerations for a National Pharmacare Strategy
      • Identifying Health as a Key Player in the Digital Economy
      • National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Stewardship
    • Empower Lifelong Learning

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      • Cyber Security
      • Cultural Safety
      • Mental Health
      • Opioid Crisis
      • Patient Safety
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      • Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research
      • The Big Impact of Emerging Health Research Institutes
      • Building the Health Infrastructure of Tomorrow
      • Canada as a World Leading Destination for Clinical Trials
      • Considerations for a National Pharmacare Strategy
      • Identifying Health as a Key Player in the Digital Economy
      • National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Stewardship
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