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(Text appears on the screen announcing that this is an Ask an Expert video and provides the name of the speaker and their job title: Ryanna Bowling, Program Lead, Organ Donation and Transplantation Project.)

(A question appears on the screen: “How is data going to help improve patients’ lives when it comes to ODT services?”)

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Ryanna: So, the need for organ transplants exceeds the number of organ donations here in Canada. Patients, families, caregivers and their living donors can feel empowered by accessing data to help them inform their journeys and those of their loved ones. In order to do this, ������ϱ�and Infoway have partnered on a multi-year initiative to modernize the way we collect data on organ donation and transplantation across the country. This multi-year initiative involves building more robust data standards that talk to one another and also helping to support modernizing it and bringing, you know, less reliance on paper, fax, phone and more digital data flows that are timely into a new data holding here at CIHI. This will allow us to have data at our fingertips that helps inform on patient quality, efficiency and care, equity and access to transplantation. And some of the examples of how patients will have improvements is increased numbers of donor volumes in the country, decreased missed donor opportunities, decreased wait times… and ultimately, we are hoping for better patient outcomes and transplants that last a lifetime.

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