coronavirus is hitting poorer and racialized Canadians harder than others, and how to start solving that problem.In an interview with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Philpott, who is heading up the new Ontario Health Data Platform, said the work so far has been on trying to find ways to break down the silos in how Ontario health information gets shared and stored during the pandemic.
But she added that she plans to make recommendations that the health care system also needs to do a better job of recognizing and addressing the calls for more detailed breakdowns of that health information in order to be able to track how the illness is hitting poorer and racialized Ontarians more severely.“So far, the information will be available based.