Participate in the consultations of the Canadian Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation

On June 24, 2014, Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced the creation of the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation to look at creative healthcare ideas and approaches that exist in Canada and abroad, identify those that hold the greatest promise for Canada, and offer its recommendations on how the federal government can support them.

Over the next year, the Panel will seek to identify five promising areas of healthcare innovation in Canada and internationally that have the potential to reduce growth in health spending while leading to better care. The Panel will also be recommending ways in which the federal government can support those innovations.

Stakeholder consultations

As part of its work, the Panel would like to hear from stakeholders. This will be done through written submissions as well as face-to-face meetings and consultations across Canada, beginning this fall. The Panel is soliciting input on your experiences in dealing with innovation within the healthcare system and what more can be done to support it in Canada.

Stakeholder consultations are targeted at organizations and individuals involved in healthcare system innovation, such as researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, charities, professional associations or healthcare providers.

What is healthcare innovation?

Healthcare innovation involves a range of activities around the development, uptake and adoption of new approaches that generate value in terms of quality and safety of care, administrative efficiency, the patient experience, and patient outcomes. Innovation can occur within a single healthcare facility or department (micro-level), across a regional health system (meso-level) or at the level of a provincial, territorial or national healthcare system (macro-level).

The Panel are interested in innovation that is cost-effective (i.e. yields a meaningful improvement in health outcomes for a modest increase in expenditures), or, better yet, that is cost-neutral with improved outcomes, or results in cost savings for the health system with the same or better outcomes.

Innovation depends on the support and interaction of three critical components:

·         Practice, which encompasses people and the way they work. This is not only clinical practice, but also includes processes and interactions between clinicians and patients, clinicians and administrators, administrators and policymakers, etc.

·         Structure, which includes physical, organizational, economic, legal or other mechanisms that constrain or enable the actions of individuals in the system.

·         Culture: the shared values, perceptions and opinions of individuals, and groups of individuals, with the system.What is the panel interested in hearing about?

Successful innovation requires partnerships that cut across multiple sectors – including governments, healthcare providers and organizations, industry and research. For success, especially at the macro-level, change is needed in practice, structure and/or culture.

The Panel would like to hear about innovation that is improving the healthcare system, and what more needs to be done. This could relate to the successful introduction of new technologies and tools, new ways of working, new ways of organizing and/or financing healthcare, new ways of capturing and using information, and much more. This is an opportunity for you to share big ideas and perspectives, which would inform The Panel’s work and ultimately the advice it provides.

The Panel is interested in receiving written briefs from stakeholders of no more than five (5) pages. To assist you in drafting your submissions, go to http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/innovation/cons/_2014/chi-cis/consult-eng.phpto access a series of questions . Feel free to address some or all of these, but please ensure that your submission does not exceed five pages in length.

Submissions will be accepted by email at innovation@hc-sc.gc.ca

Public consultations

This consultation is designed to offer all Canadians a chance to provide the Panel with information about their experiences with the healthcare system.

Go to http://surveys-sondages.hc-sc.gc.ca/s/healthcare_innovation_soinsdesante/?l=enwhere you can provide information about having seen or experienced innovations in healthcare that you think other Canadians should know about. This could include new ways in which doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are providing healthcare to you. It could also be about ways that you, as a patient, have taken a new role in your own healthcare. Finally, it could be about your ideas as a citizen and/or taxpayer.

This consultation began on Tuesday, September 16th, and will end on Friday, November 14th, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

 

 
 

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