Our Work
Better data means better decisions. Access to comprehensive health information is key to safer care, smarter innovation, and healthier Canadians.
How
We Work
Networked Health is made up of cross-functional Working Groups, each focused on an identified issue or area of interest that exists within the health system. Each working group shares its findings and recommendations back to the Coordinating Body, the group who ensures alignment and informed decision-making across Networked Health.
Areas of Work
Health Data Interoperability
Making sure your health information can move safely and efficiently between systems.
Health data interoperability enables the safe and efficient exchange of information across platforms, technologies, and locations which is essential for high-functioning health care systems. Recognizing its foundational role, the Health Data Interoperability working group is exploring how seamless data sharing can optimize quality care.
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Health Data Related Harm
Measuring how bad, missing, or misused data causes harm.
The Health Data Related Harm Framework outlines how misuse, non-use, or poor-quality data - such as inaccurate records or missing information - can harm individuals, populations, and health systems. The Health Data Related Harm working group is identifying and setting metrics that will permit the measurement of this harm, particularly the human and financial harm arising from poor health data design and use.
Inter-jurisdictional Licensure
Helping health professionals provide cross-border care in a digital health system.
In Canada, the criteria and process for health professional licensure varies by province and territory, creating barriers to continuity of care and inequities of service. The Inter-jurisdictional Licensure working group is evaluating and defining a common approach to digital-age health professional licensure that supports inter-jurisdictional quality of care.
Virtual Care Equity
Designing virtual care that works for everyone, not just a few.
Virtual care offers both opportunities and risks for health equity. In partnership with the Women’s College Hospital (WCH) Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV), the Virtual Care Equity working group is developing a framework to ensure virtual care is designed and implemented to promote equitable, high-quality health services.
Private Sector / Public Sector
Bringing together public and private health technology to support seamless, quality care.
Digital health technologies are increasingly used across both public and private sectors, but Alberta lacks policies ensuring they are interoperable or support continuity of care. The Private Sector / Public Sector working group aims to address the interface between public and private sector health technologies and services, and recommend policies that uphold quality of care regardless of platform or provider model.
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Virtual Care Quality Evaluation
Measuring what does and doesn't work in virtual health care.
Alberta lacks a standardized evaluation framework for provincial digital health services. The Virtual Care Quality Evaluation working group aims to establish comprehensive evaluation tools to assess technologies, governance, and policy impacts, ensuring virtual care is safe, effective, and high-quality.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Collaboratively developing knowledge translations about Indigenous Data Sovereignty to enable implementation.
The Indigenous data sovereignty working group is collaboratively developing an educational knowledge translation report defining Indigenous Data Sovereignty in BC’s health sector, outlining its application to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples while addressing historical, legislative, governance and policy foundations and obligations.
Interoperability Maturity Model
Developing methodologies to assess levels of maturity of health data interoperability.
Based on the health data-related harm framework, and considering both human and technical determinants of health data interoperability, the Interoperability Maturity Model working group is developing a methodology to enable provinces and territories to measure their level of maturity of health data interoperability.
Health Data Journey Mapping
Generating Evidence to Advance Interoperability and Reduce Harm in Canadian Health Systems.
The Health Data Journey Mapping working group aims to capture how patients experience data gaps, information barriers, and system-level harms across their healthcare journeys, identifying pain points that impede safety, equity, and efficiency while also highlighting positive elements that can be scaled or replicated. Conducted through interviews that center the patient perspective, this work seeks to represent the voices of individuals from rural, urban, and remote settings, including Indigenous peoples and other equity-deserving populations, who have historically faced data invisibility or systemic exclusion.