Canada confronts challenges as global race for health innovation accelerates
The Globe and Mail · Sarah Laing ·
Canada’s Health Innovation Challenge was a day-long event on Oct. 23, hosted by The Globe and Mail and sponsored by Lilly Canada
How can Canada remove barriers between medical breakthroughs and the people who need them?
That was the central question tackled at Canada’s Health Innovation Challenge, a day-long event on Oct. 23, hosted by The Globe and Mail and sponsored by Lilly Canada. Conversations explored challenges and opportunities as peer countries move ahead with discovery and delivery of life-changing medications and treatments – in the context of Canada’s long history of medical innovation.
“Our goal must be not just to discover the future of better health care, but also to deliver it to patients in Canada and to the world,” said Michelle McLean, president and CEO of HealthCareCAN, a national organization representing health-care organizations and hospitals. “An innovation that never reaches the patient is a potential left unrealized.”
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