Canadian Health Information Podcast

 Chet Walker wants to warn Canadians about how dangerous e-scooters can be. His son Austin was killed after a driver hit him while he was riding home on an e-scooter. In fact, CIHI data shows a 22% increase in hospitalizations from e-scooter injuries across the country. Doctors are starting to send out an alert — as they document the rising fractures, brain injuries and worse, with most riders not wearing helmets.Host Avis Favaro meets Dr. Brian Rowe, who studies e-scooter injuries in Edmonton, and Dr. Daniel Rosenfield, a pediatric emergency specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who believes children younger than 16 should not be allowed to ride these powerful devices.This episode is available in English. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

What can we learn about the mysteries of autism by combining artificial intelligence and Canada's valuable health data? That is the question posed by Dr. Christine Armour, pediatrician and geneticist at the University of Ottawa, and a physician scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Join host Avis Favaro as she learns about a first-of-its-kind study being led by Dr. Armour and her team at CHEO, into whether machine learning can effectively analyze health data on Canadian mothers and babies in an effort to turn it into a tool to identify children at risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Studies show early detection and treatment can improve health outcomes.This episode is available in English. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

Imagine being just 8 years old and having to translate your parents’ medical information into a language they understand. That’s the story of Kayathiri Ganeshamoorthy, who’s made a career out of helping others avoid the misunderstandings and medical errors that come from inaccurate and poor communication. This episode is about how CIHI is drilling down into equity sources of hospital-based medical errors, as data from a recent report shows that people who don’t speak English or French are 30% more likely to experience a harmful event while in hospital. So how do we fix these gaps? Host Avis Favaro looks at what this report adds to the long history of patient safety — a decades-old mission of Dr. Ross Baker, a University of Toronto health policy scientist — and how that 8-year-old grew up to lead a special translation system in Alberta hospitals. This episode is available in English only.    Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

He’s a doctor and scientist who’s helped steer Canada’s public health systems through new diseases like COVID-19 and through a revolution of data-based health care. Dr. Vivek Goel, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo and CIHI’s former Board chair, joins host Avis Favaro to discuss his long career as an academic and the insights he gained as chair of a federal expert advisory panel that called for an end to barriers that prevent health data from being shared more widely in this country — roadblocks that he says are stopping Canada from becoming a health information powerhouse. This episode is available in English only. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

What are the challenges of leading a national health data organization like CIHI?  CIHI’s new CEO, Dr. Anderson Chuck, talks about transformation in a changing world — from giving patients, health practitioners and researchers faster access to data, to improving analysis and context around the numbers.Find out his vision for how data can power the future of health care and what part of his new job keeps him up at night.Click here to learn more about the way we’re transforming to help ensure a healthier Canada.This episode is available in English only. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

How far do you have to travel for health care? Down the street? To a hospital in another town? How about to an entirely different province? A new CIHI report shows that 1 in 11 people admitted to hospital in Canada have what’s called a high travel burden. Meaning there’s no clinic, no hospital — sometimes not even roads to get to the medical care they need. In this episode, we meet Paula Alorut, an Inuit mother of 5 from Nunavut who travels over 2,000 kilometres to Ottawa to get medical care for her son. And Dr. Radha Jetty, who runs a special clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario for kids from Nunavut with medically complex needs and their families.This episode is available in English.  Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

Behind operating room doors, medical teams work under extreme pressure to save lives. And all that pressure can make for a toxic work environment. Research shows that many OR staff and trainees report being victims of uncivil behaviour — rude and demeaning comments, being ignored or sometimes colleagues not even knowing their name. Dr. Carol-Anne Moulton, of University Health Network, is on a new medical mission — to change the culture of operating rooms at one of Canada’s biggest hospitals. The goal? To design ways of promoting civility and friendlier, happier staff while ultimately making things safer for patients.Click here to see an example exercise from Dr. Moulton’s project.This episode is available in English only. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

It’s called the hidden killer. That’s because there’s little public awareness about sepsis and not a lot of data on how many people it really affects. But Amalie Henze is out to change all that. This Canadian teen knows its dangers all too well after almost dying from septic shock and having her hands and feet amputated to save her life. She’s not alone. Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud has been researching sepsis for years — and she wants to get better data on the true number of cases while creating a national strategy to help save lives from sepsis. This episode is available in English. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page. Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter. Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

Each year, there are over 15 million visits to emergency departments across Canada. But new CIHI data shows that 15% of these — that’s 1 in 7 — could potentially have been treated by a doctor or nurse practitioner in primary care. While ED doctors don’t want to discourage anyone from going to emergency, they do acknowledge that this statistic highlights the crisis in primary care happening in Canada. This episode is available in English only. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page. Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter. Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.

“You have dementia” are 3 words no one wants to hear. For the three-quarters of a million Canadians living with the disease and the 1.7 million projected to develop it, it’s a painful reality they all must face. But what happens after diagnosis — to patients, families and caregivers? Host Avis Favaro speaks with• “Care-y godmother” Katrina Prescott, a caregiving coach who helps families get the help she didn’t while she was looking after her mother, who lived with dementia• Retired family doctor David Hood, who cared for hundred of patients during his 4-decade career, as well as both of his parents after they were diagnosedFor more data go to CIHI's report titled Understanding health care trajectories of people living with dementia.This episode is available in English only. Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.Vous préférez les balados français? Voyez le Balado d’information sur la santé au Canada.