The Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Canadian Data Platform will provide a single portal through which researchers can request information from various sources from across the country and share analytical tools. It is expected to launch in approximately three months with federal funding.Dr. Kim McGrail says she and her team ran into a familiar challenge when they were trying to compare different approaches to family health-care reform across the country.
Gathering the data was going to be difficult, said McGrail, who is a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health.“The question is, is there a difference in outcomes with these two different approaches? It’s really, really complicated,” she said. She said it will provide a single portal through which researchers can request information from various sources from across the country and share analytical tools.
McGrail likened the current research process to an undulating wave graph. A researcher will start at the bottom of the wave and work their way to the top then move on to something else. Another researcher who picks up the same topic has to start at the bottom of the wave again.The database aims to eliminate those waves, having the second researcher pick up at the peak of where the last person left off.Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor was at University of B.C.
Now that is a smart, long overdue project. Bravo! liberal_party
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