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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HealthCareCAN Submission 2022 Federal Budget
HealthCareCAN's 2022 prebudget brief | August 19, 2021
HealthCareCAN Submission 2021 Federal Budget Consultation
HealthCareCAN's 2021 prebudget brief | February 19, 2021
COVID-19 Amplifies Health System Capacity Shortfalls
HealthCareCAN Policy Brief | January 25, 2021
HealthCareCAN's 2021 Pre-Budget Brief | August 18, 2020
CBC News | March 17, 2020
Green Healthcare: The Missing Piece in Canada’s Climate Response
HealthCareCAN's 2020 Pre-Budget Brief | August 15, 2019
Submitted to Finance Canada | January 25, 2019
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
