Industry Mobilization

Encouraging Vendor Mobilization for Digital Health Interoperability

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The Vendor Mobilization strategy is focused on driving the adoption of innovative, interoperable digital health solutions across Canada. By engaging vendors, healthcare organizations, and stakeholders, this initiative fosters collaboration to ensure that new technologies meet national standards and align with the evolving needs of the healthcare system. With a clear focus on accelerating the development and deployment of digital health capabilities, the Vendor Mobilization strategy is creating a more connected, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem.

About The Vendor Mobilization Strategy

What is the Vendor Mobilization Strategy?

A mobilization strategy is a coordinated set of harmonized actions taken by provinces, territories, Canada Health Infoway and other key organizations to accelerate digital health transformation in priority areas. This strategy is designed to encourage active vendor participation, ensuring that vendors enhance their solutions and deploy new interoperability capabilities in alignment with national priorities. It also aims to align requirements across jurisdictions, establishing common functional and technical requirements for vendor solutions. Additionally, the strategy seeks to coordinate regulatory and market interventions, creating integrated mechanisms that support vendor engagement and compliance.

By working together, governments, health organizations, and technology partners can ensure that digital health solutions advance interoperability, improving health care delivery for all Canadians.

Why is the Vendor Mobilization Strategy Important?

The Vendor Mobilization strategy is important because it sets the strategic coordination of market dynamics and engagement efforts to drive the adoption of pan-Canadian interoperability standards. By leveraging regulatory, market, and collaborative approaches, vendor mobilization ensures that digital health software solutions align with the interoperability requirements and contribute to Canada’s digital health transformation.

A successful vendor mobilization approach must engage all stakeholders, including vendors, jurisdictions, and health organizations, to ensure braod collaboration and alignment. It is essential to ensure compliance with common standards by aligning solutions with functional and interoperability requirements. Additionally, the approach must drive timely adoption and deployment, ensuring that vendors enhance and integrate new capabilities within reasonable timelines to meet the evolving needs of the healthcare system.