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A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DIGITAL HEALTH INNOVATION IN CANADA
PRESENTED BY: Michael Green, President and CEO TO: 11th Annual Medical Imaging Informatics and Teleradiology Conference, Hamilton, Ontario
DATE: June 17, 2016
@MGreenonHealth
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FACULTY/PRESENTER DISCLOSURE
Relationships with commercial
interests:
• Grants/Research Support:
• None
• Speakers Bureau/Honoraria:
• None
• Consulting Fees:
• None
• Other:
• None
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FEDERAL BUDGET: HEALTH COMMITMENTS
• $50 million over two years for
Infoway
• $39 million over three years
for Canadian Foundation for
Healthcare Improvement
• $47.5 million/year for
Canadian Partnership
Against Cancer
• Election promise of $3 billion
for homecare
• Prescription drug abuse an
important issue
• Focus on innovation
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INNOVATION AGENDA
• Vision for Canada’s economy as a
centre of global innovation
• Investments to support leading-
edge research and for innovative
and job-creating businesses
• Up to $800 million over four years
to support innovation networks and
clusters
• Toronto-Waterloo innovation
corridor/tech hub • “Silicon Valley North”?
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CANADA HEALTH ACCORD
• Meeting of Conference of
Deputy Ministers of Health
in late May
• Expectation of broader
digital health agenda to be
revealed this fall or next
budget
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RESULTS WILL SHOW SIGNIFICANT GROWTH
• Clinical adoption
• Consumer awareness
• Investment targets
• Pan-Canadian clinical
leadership
• Complete results in 2015-2016
Annual Report • To be published by end of July
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Outstanding Increases in Adoption of Digital Health:
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SUCCESSFUL 2015-2016
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other jurisdictions. 2010, 2012 and 2014 figures based on COACH Telehealth Survey data.
Telehealth Clinical Consultations Continue to Grow:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SUCCESSFUL 2015-2016
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Since 2007, an estimated $16 billion in benefits have been accrued to families and the health care system as a result of investments in telehealth, drug information systems, diagnostic imaging solutions, and physician and ambulatory clinic EMRs
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BENEFITS OF DIGITAL HEALTH
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Best Year Yet for Consumer Awareness of Digital Health:
• 2015-2016 campaign was seen, read or heard 220 million times, a
24 per cent increase
• Better Health Together has increased Canadians’ awareness of
digital health (from 62 per cent in 2015 to 75 per cent in 2016), as
well as their positive perceptions of its impact (from 63 per cent in
2015 to 74 per cent in 2016)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SUCCESSFUL 2015-2016
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THREE IMPORTANT GOALS
• Safer and more effective medication
management
• Scale patient-centred digital health
solutions • Patient-centred online services
• Scale and expand telehomecare
solutions
• Continue to leverage foundational
investments • Core EHR systems (including DI),
EMRs, telehealth, public health
surveillance
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e-PRESCRIBING DEFINITION
• The secure electronic
creation and transmission of
a prescription between an
authorized prescriber and a
patient’s pharmacy of choice,
using clinical Electronic
Medical Record (EMR) and
pharmacy management
software
- Canadian Medical
Association Canadian
Pharmacists Association
Joint e-Prescribing
Statement 2012
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UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
• One service for the country • Simplify interoperability for
EMR and pharmacy systems
• Jurisdictions to join as they
become ready
• More cost effective than
deploying multiple e-
prescribing services
• Expected to generate
revenue equal to or greater
than the cost to operate • Can become self-sufficient
after five years if scale is
achieved
• Can explore adding new
services after deployment of
core service
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EMPOWERING PATIENTS
• Only 4-8% of Canadians
have online access to:
• Book appointments
• View lab results
• Consult with clinicians
• Renew prescriptions
• Numbers may be higher
based on our last survey
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PATIENT ONLINE SERVICES AND TELEHOMECARE
• Continue to invest in: • e-visits
• e-renewals
• e-booking
• e-views
• Telehomecare is ready to be
immediately scaled • Improves quality of life for
patients with chronic conditions
• Fewer emergency room visits
and hospital stays
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INFOWAY’S TELEHOMECARE INITIATIVE
• Initiate and scale telehomecare for
patients where demonstrated benefits
exist (e.g., COPD and CHF)
• Initiate and scale telehomecare for
new patient populations/conditions
where innovative models of care have
shown promise (e.g., diabetes, youth
mental health, high risk pregnancies)
• Initiate projects to evaluate the
applicability of telehomecare in other
areas
• Invest in enablers of telehomecare
use (e.g., solution upgrade and
integration, forums and clinical peer
support initiatives, benefits
evaluations)
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DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING ADVANCED USE
• Decision support CPOE
• Efficiency/workflow
• Better utilization
• Reduced costs
• Consumer access
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HEALTH CARE INNOVATIONS IN CANADA
• The 2015 Report of the Advisory Panel
on Health Innovation identified five
critical areas for health care innovation:
• Patient engagement and empowerment
• Health systems integration with workforce
modernization
• Technological transformation via digital
health & precision medicine
• Better value from procurement,
reimbursement and regulation
• Industry as an economic driver and
innovation catalyst
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INNOVATION PROGRAM
• Continue to develop
innovation ecosystem concept
• Assess via market soundings
home and abroad
• Align with Health Accord and
broader federal innovation
agenda
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NEW ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACH
• New organizational structure
effective April 1, 2016 • Ensuring the right skills and
experience to support new direction
• Vertical business line focus on new
core programs (e-prescribing,
patient-centred digital solutions,
innovation ecosystem) and
completion of existing programs
• Strong horizontal focus on strategy
and business development • Supported by core functions and
shared services
• Encourages cross-functional
teamwork and participation
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STANDARDIZATION VS CUSTOMIZATION
• For example, our approach for
e-prescribing will result in a
standardized service being
deployed across jurisdictions
with increased adoption by
retail pharmacy and EMR
vendors
• This will avoid cost duplication,
leveraging economies of scale
while still aligning with a local
infrastructure
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WHAT THIS MEANS FOR INDUSTRY
• Partnerships vs traditional
vendor relationship
• Risk sharing • Focus on achieving
deliverables, providing
services/solutions that
add value vs supplying
product
• Innovative approaches • e.g., social impact bonds
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e-PRESCRIBING SERVICE (PrescribeIT)
• Complete the first release
of the service (2017)
• Conduct one or more
regional trials
• Prepare for a full scale
launch with at least two
jurisdictions
• Achieving the sustainable
scale proposed will require
additional funding and the
participation of additional
jurisdictions
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TELEHOMECARE
• Where can we achieve
greatest impact and ROI?
• Projects
• Geographies
• Innovations
• What has greatest potential
to scale?
• Initiate and complete
projects within 24 months of
start-up
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FOUNDATIONAL INVESTMENTS
• Investment Portfolio Optimization
initiative
• Goal is to bring existing EHR and
EMR investment projects to or near
completion, further advancing
progress
• Each project will receive an in-depth
assessment and a completion plan
• Ideally want to complete all
projects within the next 24
months