Issue: High Spending, Low Results

Goals: Increased Efficiency

• Improve quality and delivery of health care services provided.

• Improve the cost effectiveness of public spending in the healthcare sector.

1. Invest in MHealth InnovationPartner with the private sector to advance research, monitoring, and treatment.

Benefits

• Strengthened real-time and preventative care.

• Improved quality of pharmaceuticals.

Concerns

• Ethical incentives and industry regulation

• Theft and data protection

2. Integrated Data Systems

Fully implement state/provincial integrated electronic health records platform

Benefits:

- Increased quality of patient care

- Significant cost-cutting

- Reduce inequality in services among vulnerable populations

Concerns:

- Vulnerability to data breaches

- Infrastructure costs / capacity

3. Enhance Regulatory Framework

Introduce private sector regulation requiring data sharing

Benefits:

- Identify trends

- Share best practices

- Protect vulnerable populations

Concerns:

- Privacy

- Pushback or disengagement from private industry

Options

1. Invest in MHealth Innovation

2. Integrated Data Systems

3. Enhance Regulatory Framework

Recommendation: Incentivize Innovation

- Synthesize options (1) and (2)

- (1) Incentivize private sector and (2) establish patient data platform

- Data culture of collaboration