No more reports: Canada needs a strategy to put health-care innovations into action

High on the government’s priority list should be the urgent need for Canada to implement a strategy for the adoption of innovative health solutions and medical technologies to sustain momentum.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government committed to several health-care investments in its election platform, including spending to support health-care innovation to the tune of more than $6-billion with commitments to address wait times, improve access to virtual care, commercialize leading life sciences and biomedical research, and support vaccine research.Screenshot courtesy of CPAC

Opinion

BY PAUL-ÉMILE CLOUTIER, NEIL D. FRASER

October 25, 2021

With Canada’s federal election settled and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals returned to power, the health-care community now waits to see how promises made on the campaign trail translate into concrete policies to improve a health system battered by an ongoing pandemic. As much of the country struggle...

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