Canadian health leaders joined a roundtable discussion and examined ways to reform the health system to increase resiliency and address fragilities exposed by the COVID pandemic.
Canada’s Secondary Health Crisis: A Call to Build on Health System Strengths and Value-Driven Investments
Canada’s Secondary Health Crisis: A Call to Build on Health System Strengths and Value-Driven Investments
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- COVID-19 exposed the fragility of Canada’s health system, from missed surgeries to deferred screening for life-threatening diseases.
- Recognizing the need to build a more resilient health system, a group of Canadian health leaders joined a roundtable discussion on how to turn the covid-19 crisis into an opportunity for health system reform.
- The roundtable yielded two key recommendations for immediate action:
- prioritizing value-driven investments in health systems;
- building on the strengths of the initial response to the COVID-19 crisis by:
- using virtual care and digital health technologies,
- optimizing measurement and data sharing for evidence-based decision-making,
- advancing public-private partnerships.
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