Program directory · Health Canada
Health Information
- Department
- Health Canada
- Program code
- BVG07 (H)
- Core responsibility
- Health Care Systems
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Government of Canada acknowledges the importance of enhancing health care systems by providing health care information that improves the health of Canadians. Health Canada provides policy advice that is instrumental in delivering comparable and actionable information to accelerate improvements in health care systems. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada under its present mandate. Target populations include funders and policy-makers (Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT)) ministries of health; health services organizations, including regional health authorities and local health integration networks, health managers and health professionals); national, provincial and territorial associations and organizations; research and knowledge translation bodies (academic communities, health quality councils, non-governmental organizations, researchers, international bodies); the Canadian public and the private sector. CIHI’s operations are designed to align with the priorities of its key stakeholders, including funders and policy-makers at all levels of government, health services organizations, associations and research bodies.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Information | This program | 2018-19 – 2024-25 | $478M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
No significant changes detected.
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 80% | 2021 | 93% Due to a very low response rate as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on CIHI’s stakeholders, the results should be interpreted with caution, and it may be difficult to make comparisons between previous results. | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 80% | 2022 | — Data is not available for March 2022. The Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) no longer collects data for this indicator. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 80% | 2023 | — Data for the indicator is no longer collected. Health Canada identified a new indicator to better reflect CIHI's current work under the contribution agreement with Health Canada and will be start reporting data in fiscal year 2025-26. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $85M | $85.5M |
| 2019-20 | $88.9M | $89.6M |
| 2020-21 | $94.4M | $101M |
| 2021-22 | $103M | $102M |
| 2022-23 | $99.1M | $99.7M |
| 2023-24 | $99.1M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $94.5M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 12 | 15 |
| 2019-20 | 12 | 15 |
| 2020-21 | 16 | 9 |
| 2021-22 | 16 | 9 |
| 2022-23 | 16 | 8 |
| 2023-24 | 16* | — |
| 2024-25 | 16* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $84,995,234 | $88,865,691 | $93,869,003 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $88,873,006 | $93,876,318 | $98,877,065 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $94,387,668 | $99,387,668 | $94,387,668 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $103,187,099 | $99,137,599 | $99,137,599 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $99,140,479 | $99,140,479 | $94,474,979 | ||||
| Actual | $85,530,161 | $89,638,979 | $100,602,086 | $102,317,884 | $99,748,603 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
