National data standards in the works after COVID-19 highlighted info gaps: Hajdu
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, pictured in Ottawa on Thursday, June 4, 2020, told a Senate committee today that national standards and ensuring information is shared quickly with Ottawa are part of ongoing negotiations with the provinces over $14 billion in new federal COVID-19 transfer.
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. Hajdu says she was surprised to learn of the “fractured” way in which data is collected in the provinces and territories and how difficult it can be to have it reported to the federal level.She says more detailed data is needed to track how vulnerable certain populations are to the novel coronavirus and notes that raced-based data has not been available at the federal level in part because not all jurisdiction have been collecting that information.
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