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The Roadmap Initiative is a national vision and four-year action plan to modernize Canada's health information system. Led by CIHI, it is a collaborative effort with Statistics Canada, Health Canada and many other groups at the national, regional and local levels.

The aim of the Roadmap Initiative is quite simple: better information for better health and health care. The Roadmap is designed to enable us to determine the answers to two basic questions: i) how healthy is Canada's health system? ii) how healthy are Canadians? 

Some of the projects will result in new databases being established, or existing ones expanded. Others will seek to foster better data and technical standards for gathering information and for data protection. Still others will focus on obtaining consensus on the indicators and determinants of good health. Almost all of these projects will involve collaborative efforts with key stakeholders at the local, regional, provincial/territorial and national levels. 

Securing stakeholder participation at the front-end of the process, and throughout the project implementation phase, is critical to ensuring that the outcomes are relevant, practical and contribute to improving the health of Canadians and of the health system. Accordingly, consultations have been and will remain an ongoing feature of the Roadmap Initiative.

Roadmap Initiative   website