Fact Sheet – eHealth Innovation Research Projects

[ Press Release 2013-21 ]

eHealth is an essential enabler of health care in Canada. Through its investment of $2.1 billion, the Harper Government is supporting Canada Health Infoway in its work with the provinces and territories and many other stakeholders to increase the availability of electronic health records and other ehealth technologies that benefit Canadians through improvements in patient access to service, the quality of health care and the efficiency of the system.

The Harper Government is providing $1.6M to support 16 new ehealth innovation projects across Canada. The projects were funded through a strategic research initiative led by the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. The initiative was designed to stimulate ehealth innovations by integrating, augmenting and evaluating novel health information technologies to empower patients as partners in their care, create a new generation of decision tools for health professionals to enable individualized care, and monitor population health. The overall aim is to improve the efficiency of patient and population-centered care and enhance Canada's competitive position in the ehealth sector.

List of funded projects