Canada needs a national health-care data system as a first step towards modernizing care

Provincial opposition, though understandable, maintains an outdated status quo which puts lives at risk while making it difficult for administrators to understand what needs remedying.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is pushing for greater co-ordination on health-care data—an essential first step in strengthening Canadian health care, writes Mateo Larrazabal.

A pan-Canadian database would make data more accessible and organized, helping the health-care system operate more efficiently and save more lives. The lack of a national database has created a disjointed byzantine system that makes accessing health data a difficult, time-co...

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