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Canadian Health Information Podcast

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/37j. Total Éps: 56

The Canadian Health Information Podcast (CHIP) features in-depth conversations about the health of Canadians and the performance of Canada’s health systems. You’ll hear from the people behind the numbers — those working hard on the front lines, the policy-makers who rely on data to make informed decisions, and patients and caregivers who bring their lived experiences to the conversation. Join host Avis Favaro and learn about the work being done to keep Canadians healthy.

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Safer by Design: Preventing the Next Medical Error

Épisode 54

mardi 27 octobre 2026 • Durée 25:07

Whether it’s an infection, a fall or some other unintended outcome, hospital harm remains a serious concern. It's something the Canadian Institute for Health Information tracks, with the latest report showing one in 17 hospital stays in Canada is linked with some sort of patient harm.

That’s more than just a number. It represents a real person whose recovery may have taken an unexpected turn.

The data also shows rates have stayed relatively stable since the pandemic, but are still higher than they were before COVID-19.

So, what’s putting patients at risk and, more importantly, what can hospitals do to stop harm before it happens?

In this episode of the Canadian Health Information Podcast, host Avis Favaro speaks with Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO of Healthcare Excellence Canada, and Dr. Tiffany Blair, of the Saskatchewan Health Authority, about what’s behind patient safety challenges in Canadian hospitals — and the opportunities to make care safer.

They discuss the impact of mounting pressure on the health system, including workforce strain and staff turnover, and how these challenges can affect the continuity and safety of care.

The good news is that CIHI data also offers a roadmap for improvement because safer care is about spotting the warning signs, learning from the evidence and building systems that make things go right in the first place.

The conversation spotlights the Hospital Harm Improvement Resource, developed by Healthcare Excellence Canada in partnership with CIHI, and how it can help health care organizations turn evidence into action to reduce preventable harm.

As Zelmer puts it, “Hospitals right across the country are using these data and the opportunities to improve, and they use it in different ways.”

Because improving patient safety isn’t just about responding when something goes wrong. It’s about designing care to make harm less likely in the first place.

This episode is available in English only.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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Operating in the Dark: How Connecting Care Saves Lives

Épisode 53

mardi 29 septembre 2026 • Durée 25:00

Did you know that 99% of Canadian doctors surveyed reported that disconnected health systems affect their ability to provide care? And almost half report having seen a patient who experienced harm — like a missed diagnosis or worsening disease — as a result.

Canada’s health information still lives in silos — in separate systems, medical offices, hospitals, and provinces and territories that can’t communicate when it matters most. In this episode, host Avis Favaro speaks with 3 women who have experienced the consequences of disconnected care first-hand. And all 3 are now part of the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s team working on the medical language that will join clinics and hospitals across provinces and territories to help health information follow patients — wherever they are.

This episode is available in English.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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Nursing Home Without Walls

Épisode 52

mardi 18 août 2026 • Durée 19:51

What if the future of long-term care isn’t about moving seniors into nursing homes, but instead about bringing the nursing homes to them? In this episode, host Avis Favaro explores Nursing Home Without Walls, an innovative Canadian program that is helping older adults remain independent, happy and healthy while continuing to live at home. From walking clubs, shopping trips and bus tours to practical everyday support, the program is redefining what aging in place can look like.

Joining the conversation is Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, professor of nursing at the University of Moncton and creator of the Nursing Home Without Walls program. She shares how this simple idea has grown into a province-wide initiative in New Brunswick that is now expanding across Canada, and why reimagining the role of nursing homes could help ease pressure on the health care system.

This episode is available in English.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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The Canary in the Coal Mine: Emergency Department Wait Times

Épisode 51

jeudi 25 juin 2026 • Durée 23:41

New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows emergency departments are dealing with a record high number of visits, 16.1 million and climbing. And more numbers reveal the pressures that are leaving patients stuck in emergency departments for hours or days, putting them and health workers at risk.

In this episode, host Avis Favaro discusses the picture the data paints — with Dr. Fraser Mackay, an emergency physician and member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and Cheryl Chui, Director of Health System Analytics at CIHI. The problems aren’t just in how emergency departments are functioning, but in what’s happening beyond the department itself.

Canada has one of the lowest rates of hospital beds per population among OECD countries. And many of these beds are filled with patients waiting for discharge to other places.

The discussion looks at what’s driving the crisis and why solutions have been so difficult to implement.

Additional audio courtesy Global and CBC News.

This episode is available in English.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

Dr. Reimer’s First Shift: Canada’s New Chief Public Health Officer

Épisode 50

mardi 31 mars 2026 • Durée 24:19

How do you safeguard Canada’s public health in an era of unprecedented upheaval — from the growth of health misinformation and conspiracy theories to advice from Dr. Google and looming pandemics? That is the role of Canada’s new chief public health officer, Dr. Joss Reimer — a physician from Manitoba and former president of the Canadian Medical Association — who began her new job on April 1, 2026.

In this wide-ranging interview, host Avis Favaro talks with Dr. Reimer about the origins of her commitment to public service, how sleep deprivation and burnout were turning points in her career, what her work in Nairobi taught her about looking beyond our borders and how leading Manitoba’s COVID-19 Vaccine Taskforce shifted how she communicates.

This episode is available in English.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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The Last Word: LTC residents take control of their life and death

Épisode 49

mardi 24 mars 2026 • Durée 23:26

Every day across Canada, seniors who live in long-term care (LTC) homes are sent to hospital for medical care, some during their final days of life. In fact, according to new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information, nearly 1 in 5 residents transferred from long-term care to the hospital die within a day — meaning they were likely near the end of their lives regardless of the urgent problem that led to the transfer. This raises the question, were these transfers necessary, ethical and what the residents really wanted?

Host Avis Favaro talks with Jill Oliver, an ethicist from the William Osler Health System in Brampton, Ontario, about a new program called POET, which stands for the Prevention Of Error-based Transfers. The aim: to make sure residents have their wishes respected, especially at the end of life. And 2 staff members at an LTC home that adopted POET — Lindsay Passfield and Lori Norris-Dudley — describe the profound difference the program has made in the lives and deaths of the residents they care for.

This episode is available in English

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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Shedicine: Helping Senior Men Stay Healthy and Live Longer

Épisode 48

mardi 17 mars 2026 • Durée 24:42

There are some 3.8 million men across Canada who are 65 and older- with studies showing once they leave the workforce they lose connections, friendships, and purpose. Loneliness in this group boosts the risk of heart disease, depression, dementia and even suicide.

So how do you help keep this large and growing group of older Canadians mentally and physically healthy, and out of hospital and long-term care? We're going to introduce you to something called "Shedicine” - or Shed Medicine. These are men's groups - called Men's Sheds- sprouting up across the country and around the world. They’re turning sawdust, tools, and hobbies into conversations and companionship. And it's medicinal, say advocates.

It's an important example of the power of community senior support programs. Surveys show that over 90% of older Canadians want to stay in their homes and their communities. So, Canada needs to tap into the over 8,000 independent groups like Men's Sheds to keep seniors physically and mentally healthy.

In this episode host Avis Favaro talks with Robert Goluch, President of Men’s Sheds Canada, about this relatively new program to help older men stay happy, healthy and living longer and Raza Mirza, a gerontologist and chief operating officer of Help Age Canada, a non-profit charity that works with community-based senior service organizations to keep seniors in their communities and out of hospital.

This episode is available in English.

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Ozempic: Boon for Diabetes Patients, Burden for the Health System?

Épisode 47

mardi 10 mars 2026 • Durée 23:43

Canada has a new distinction. Our country has been crowned the second-largest Ozempic user in the world. Most of us know about Ozempic’s class of drugs, GLP-1s, for weight loss, courtesy of testimonials from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey. But the reality is Ozempic, or semaglutide, was first developed for type 2 diabetes, a serious disease that can lead to blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart attacks.

New data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information shows that our health system has gone from spending about $13 million a year on Ozempic to over $800 million a year — an increase of nearly 6,000%. CIHI’s pharmaceutical data tool allows users to explore this dramatic rise in spending and see how drug costs are shifting across the country. It’s now the fastest growing drug expense for the public purse. Sticker shock for some, but as host Avis Favaro discovers, according to diabetes specialist and University of Calgary professor Dr. David Lau, paying upfront for this miracle drug will be well worth it in the long run.

This episode is available in English only.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

Aging Without Dignity: Seniors and Poverty

Épisode 46

mardi 17 février 2026 • Durée 24:34

From going without electricity to relying on food banks, Canada’s seniors are struggling to age with dignity. Data shows that 1 in 5 live at the poverty line, with rent and housing eating up their meagre incomes. As well, 91% of seniors say they want to live at home, but the support isn’t always there — for example, home care may not reach seniors in rural communities. All of this is leaving our stressed health systems to fill the gap. And the pressure is only growing. In fact, in 2026, Canada officially became a super-aged nation — meaning that at least 20% of the population (1 in 5 people) is age 65 or older.

In this episode, host Avis Favaro speaks with seniors across Canada who are struggling to make ends meet, as well as with Dr. Samir Sinha — a geriatric specialist at the Sinai Health System and an advisor to Canada’s National Institute on Ageing — on why, despite decades of warning, our country seems wholly unprepared to care for our aging population.

This episode is available in English only.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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How ChatGPT May Have Saved My Life

Épisode 45

lundi 12 janvier 2026 • Durée 22:58

In a world where AI sits in our pockets and answers our questions in seconds, how do we know when to trust the technology with our personal health? On today’s episode, host Avis Favaro talks with Alvina Nadeem, an engineer, mother and ovarian cancer survivor who says AI likely saved her life when she input symptoms that she had ignored into ChatGPT and it flagged the possibility she had cancer.

But researchers from the University of Waterloo, including Sirisha Rambhatla, Director of the Critical Machine Learning (ML) Lab at the University of Waterloo, caution that using artificial intelligence to self-diagnose illness can misinform. They found that AI was right about a third of the time when prompted using real-world questions.

Bottom line: AI can be a powerful tool for health care, but experts urge it needs some kind of guardrails to prevent it from doing more harm than good.

The episode is available in English only.

Episode transcripts can be found on our podcast web page.

Learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Say hello on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can also stay up to date on the latest news and upcoming releases with our monthly newsletter.

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