Michael Wolfson and Vivek Goel

Michael Wolfson is a former assistant chief statistician at Statistics Canada, and a current member of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Vivek Goel is president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Both are members of the Expert Advisory Group on the Development of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy.

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

Canadians see new and increasingly powerful computerization in almost every facet of their day-to-day lives—everywhere, that is, except for something as fundamental as health

Canada's Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured. Of course, updating health data systems has costs. But given the tens of billions of health-care dollars the federal government is providing to the provinces through fiscal transfers, it is long past time the federal government leveraged this clout—using both carrots and sticks—so that people in Canada can finally have informed, accessible health data when and where they need it most, write Michael Wolfson and Vivek Goel. *The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade*

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

Opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON AND VIVEK GOEL | February 17, 2022

Canadians see new and increasingly powerful computerization in almost every facet of their day-to-day lives—everywhere, that is, except for something as fundamental as health

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

Opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON AND VIVEK GOEL | February 17, 2022

Canadians see new and increasingly powerful computerization in almost every facet of their day-to-day lives—everywhere, that is, except for something as fundamental as health

Michael Wolfson and Vivek Goel

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

In pursuit of a world-class health data system

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