Canada Working to Improve National Data Standards After COVID-19 Exposes Weaknesses

Canada Working to Improve National Data Standards After COVID-19 Exposes Weaknesses
Minister of Health Patty Hajdu arrives to a press conference on Parliament Hill during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on June 4, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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OTTAWA—Health Minister Patty Hajdu says federal officials are working on national standards for health data collection after the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted major gaps in information.

She told a Senate committee today that national standards—and ensuring information is shared quickly with Ottawa—is part of ongoing negotiations with the provinces over $14 billion in new federal COVID-19 transfers.