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Educational Resources

Explore a curated collection of articles, reports, organizations, and tools to help you better understand health data and its governance

Featured Research

Insights from our own research and key publications

The Connected Care for Canadians Act: an important step toward interoperability of health data

Building a Foundation to Reduce Health Inequities: Routine Collection of Sociodemographic Data in Primary Care

Artificial intelligence in primary care practice

Developing an AI Tool to Derive Social Determinants of Health for Primary Care Patients: Qualitative Findings From a Codesign Workshop

Exploring patient perspectives on how they can and should be engaged in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in health care

Priorities for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Primary Care: A Canadian Deliberative Dialogue with Patients, Providers, and Health System Leaders

Implementing artificial intelligence in Canadian primary care: Barriers and strategies identified through a national deliberative dialogue

Considerations for collecting data on race and Indigenous identity during health card renewal across Canadian jurisdictions

Key Reports

Valuable insights from trusted sources and other important documents

Position Statement: Supporting access to data in electronic medical records for quality improvement

Recommended Books

Explore key books on health data and AI

Race After Technology By Ruha Benjamin

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor By Virginia Eubanks

Organizations

Discover leading groups that are shaping health data policy

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Health Data Research Network Canada (HDRN)

First Nations Information Governance Centre