Feds have role to play in modernizing Canada’s health-care systems

National standards, digital modernization, and national licensure would give us a way to improve Canada’s leadership role in global health-care and build an improved and more national health-care system domestically.

The modernization of clinical practice has many dimensions: digital health, national licensure, virtual care, and best practice and quality indicators are among them, writes the C.D. Howe's Will Falk. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY WILL FALK

November 6, 2019

Health care is a provincial responsibility. A national role in health care would have been incomprehensible to our founders, as health care was delivered locally in 1867 by caregivers who physically visited their patients. This delivery method has changed dramatically in recent times, creating a leg...

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