Canadian Institute For Health Information - Featured Content

Featured Content

CIHI produces various reports to support those who partake in health services research, they collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to create and maintain a broad range of health databases, measurements and standards. It draws on them as well as outside sources to develop publicly available reports and analyses.

These reports include:

• Strategic Directions Report which outlines the priorities identified by the stakeholders and speaks to what CIHI will be pursuing over the next four years in our efforts to serve their needs.
• Annual Report which provides an overview of the organization, its corporate achievements of the past fiscal year, the priorities for the upcoming year and a summary of the audited financial statements.
• CIHI Directions which is released three times a year to give the public insight at the work that CIHI is accomplishing.
• Product and Services Guide which assists clients and stakeholders in obtaining various relevant information on the products and services that CIHI offers.

The Product and Services guide cover topics such as:

• Types of Care (e.g. primary health care, acute care, community care)
• Health system performance (e.g. wait times, quality of care and outcomes, indicators)
• Spending and health workforce (e.g. government expenditures; drug spending; doctors and nurses)
• Factors influencing health (e.g. environmental, socio-economic and lifestyle issues)

CIHI also promotes the understanding and use of its data, standards and methods through online tools as well as a variety of workshops, courses and conferences.