Do health care deals work? Feds overhauling data collection to help answer
Global News
The federal government is looking to create a complete picture of the system by overhauling the way Canada collects and shares health data.
In medicine, before a doctor treats a patient’s illness, they first try to get a sense of the person’s health.
They collect information on the symptoms, run tests and blood work and gather whatever details they can.
That way, they’ll know whether or not the medicine has worked.
It’s called establishing a baseline, and policy experts do the same thing to figure out if their latest strategy has actually fixed the problem.
When it comes to fixing Canada’s ailing health-care systems, governments have often failed to set that baseline – so it’s difficult to know how well the treatment has worked, said Haizhen Mou, a professor with University of Saskatchewan Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.
She launched a research project to study whether past health accords between federal and provincial governments have made meaningful differences in the quality and availability of health care in Canada, but ran into trouble almost immediately.
“What I’m trying to figure out is whether we can find comparable data to conduct a meaningful evaluation of the impact of those health accords,” Mou said.
“So far, the answer is no.”
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