From: Will Falk To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: October 16, 2026 Re:Digital Health, Clinical AI and the Trade War The reality of digital healthcare in Canada has long been that three largest hospital EMR vendors have almost no Canadian presence. Epic and MEDITECH have zero Canadian employees, and the Cerner part of Oracle only a handful, even as […]
C.D. Howe Institute Releases a Series of Recommendations to Boost Canada’s Productivity October 15, 2026 – Canada needs coordinated reforms across multiple policy areas to address its longstanding productivity problem, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s Productivity Blueprint, released today with recommendations for policymakers across different sectors and levels of government. Canadians’ living standards have […]
L’Institut C.D. Howe publie une série de recommandations pour stimuler la productivité du Canada 15 Octobre 2026 – Le Canada doit mettre en œuvre des réformes coordonnées dans plusieurs domaines de politique publique pour remédier à son problème persistant de productivité, selon le Productivity Blueprint de l’Institut C.D. Howe, publié aujourd’hui et proposant des recommandations […]
From: Tarn Dhillon To: Healthcare and labour market policy decision-makers Date: September 23, 2026 Re: The Dental Plan Worked. The Delivery System Now Needs to Catch Up. The Canadian Dental Care Plan has done what it set out to do. As of mid-2026, roughly 6.6 million Canadians have signed on and more than 4.3 million […]
From: Will Falk and Keldon Bester To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: September 22, 2026 Re: AI Co-Pilots Set to Disrupt the Great Medical Record Oligopoly AI now has a credible path to disrupt Canada’s electronic medical record (EMR) markets. Not through wholesale replacement, but by working above and beside existing systems. Ambient scribes and second-screen clinical decision support (CDS) […]
From: Harvey Naglie To: Innovation Observers Date: September 8, 2026 Re: Canada Built the AI. Now Build the Market. Canada’s artificial-intelligence problem is coming into focus. We know how to produce research, talent and promising companies. We have not learned how to give those companies a domestic market large and coherent enough to scale in. […]
In Canada, only 13.2 percent of Canadians reported accessing core components of their health records electronically. Access varies widely across provinces: Saskatchewan leads the way with 38 percent, nearly triple the national average, while Ontario and Quebec lag at just 9.3 and 7.5 percent, respectively. As provinces work to close this gap, expanding electronic access […]
August 25, 2026 – Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have demonstrated strong clinician demand and measurable benefits, but Canada’s fragmented procurement and regulatory systems could prevent the country from safely translating early adoption into a competitive healthcare AI sector, according to a new Communiqué from the C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group. Composed of experts from […]
Scaling Up: Commercializing Health AI in Canada Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group Fourth meeting of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group Meeting Overview The C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group met for its fourth session on June 23, 2026, to examine […]
25 août 2026 – Les logiciels de transcription numérique basés sur l’intelligence artificielle (scribe IA) suscitent un fort intérêt auprès des cliniciens et offrent des avantages mesurables. Cependant, selon un nouveau communiqué du Groupe de travail sur la croissance économique et la résilience du secteur de la santé de l’Institut C.D. Howe, la fragmentation des […]
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Research spending watchers Date: August 24, 2026 Re: Self-Imposed Barriers Hampering Canada’s Life Sciences Sector The federal Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector Task Force report recently delivered 39 recommendations to reposition the sector as a strategic, nation-building priority. It identified complex regulatory pathways, fragmented ethics approvals across sites, limited data infrastructure, and a lengthy […]
To: Immigration and healthcare watchers From: Tingting Zhang Date: August 10, 2026 Re: Faster Processing, Not Co-payments, Needed to Put a Lid on Refugee Healthcare Costs The public cost of providing health coverage for asylum seekers and refugees has more than quadrupled over the past five years. The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) will spend […]
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From: Will Falk To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: October 16, 2026 Re:Digital Health, Clinical AI and the Trade War The reality of digital healthcare in Canada has long been that three largest hospital EMR vendors have almost no Canadian presence. Epic and MEDITECH have zero Canadian employees, and the Cerner part of Oracle only a handful, even as […] 
From: Tarn Dhillon To: Healthcare and labour market policy decision-makers Date: September 23, 2026 Re: The Dental Plan Worked. The Delivery System Now Needs to Catch Up. The Canadian Dental Care Plan has done what it set out to do. As of mid-2026, roughly 6.6 million Canadians have signed on and more than 4.3 million […] 
From: Will Falk and Keldon Bester To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: September 22, 2026 Re: AI Co-Pilots Set to Disrupt the Great Medical Record Oligopoly AI now has a credible path to disrupt Canada’s electronic medical record (EMR) markets. Not through wholesale replacement, but by working above and beside existing systems. Ambient scribes and second-screen clinical decision support (CDS) […] 
From: Harvey Naglie To: Innovation Observers Date: September 8, 2026 Re: Canada Built the AI. Now Build the Market. Canada’s artificial-intelligence problem is coming into focus. We know how to produce research, talent and promising companies. We have not learned how to give those companies a domestic market large and coherent enough to scale in. […] 
In Canada, only 13.2 percent of Canadians reported accessing core components of their health records electronically. Access varies widely across provinces: Saskatchewan leads the way with 38 percent, nearly triple the national average, while Ontario and Quebec lag at just 9.3 and 7.5 percent, respectively. As provinces work to close this gap, expanding electronic access […] 
August 25, 2026 – Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have demonstrated strong clinician demand and measurable benefits, but Canada’s fragmented procurement and regulatory systems could prevent the country from safely translating early adoption into a competitive healthcare AI sector, according to a new Communiqué from the C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group. Composed of experts from […] 
Scaling Up: Commercializing Health AI in Canada Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group Fourth meeting of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group Meeting Overview The C.D. Howe Institute’s Health Sector Economic Growth and Resilience Working Group met for its fourth session on June 23, 2026, to examine […] 
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Research spending watchers Date: August 24, 2026 Re: Self-Imposed Barriers Hampering Canada’s Life Sciences Sector The federal Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector Task Force report recently delivered 39 recommendations to reposition the sector as a strategic, nation-building priority. It identified complex regulatory pathways, fragmented ethics approvals across sites, limited data infrastructure, and a lengthy […] 
To: Immigration and healthcare watchers From: Tingting Zhang Date: August 10, 2026 Re: Faster Processing, Not Co-payments, Needed to Put a Lid on Refugee Healthcare Costs The public cost of providing health coverage for asylum seekers and refugees has more than quadrupled over the past five years. The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) will spend […]