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There's a disconnect between the resources going into healthcare and the services delivered.
We need high-quality, public data to save our health system. Time to fill the gaps.

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A Tale of Two Wait Times…

Data drives decisions—or it should

Individual health decisions rely on accurate information—that people don't have. At the same time, health spending is skyrocketing, now over $30 billion per year. Services are deteriorating. It doesn't add up. We're not spending wisely. We can do much better.

The political cost of transparency on health system performance is too high. So we hear little—or spin. This site collects what data we do have and highlights what's missing.

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You can't improve what you don't measure.
It's hard to pin blame when you can't show how bad it is.
Measure the right things.
Tax dollars transferred to the health system is not health care.
Data needs interpretation and public scrutiny.
Cherry-picking siloed data is propaganda not information.
Informed decision making, questions, and learning need data.
Incentives drive behaviour.
Funding, operating, and reporting is a conflict of interest.
Change comes from external pressure not entrenched interests.
Resources are finite.
Lack of data enables covering up flaws and waste.
Fixing healthcare is a political and management problem.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Saying that we're trying our best is not a plan.
SMART goals, detailed steps, and tracking beat media releases.
Fixing health care requires thinking differently.
Ideas and solutions are only good if they achieve real results.

Essential Performance Measures*

Opportunities*

*Icons refer to quality of available public data and are not a reflection of the quality or performance of the underlying service.

Promoting Transparency and Accountability