Webinar: Revolution to Evolution: Access Reimagined Through Patient Insight

Health care in Canada is evolving to include transformative treatments such as precision medicine, targeted biologics, and cell and gene therapies. These innovations are reshaping what is possible in diagnosis and care, with many more on the way. Yet the public infrastructure responsible for evaluating, funding, and delivering them is still catching up to the pace and complexity of change.

This webinar explored how the public access conversation is shifting from long standing advocacy toward implementation of practical solutions. It spotlighted two tools being used to bridge innovation and access: the System Readiness Tool (I2U) and the Outcomes Based Agreements Playbook (Health Technology Innovation Platform). These tools provide actionable strategies to improve funding models, system capacity, and readiness to support new treatments, demonstrating how patient groups can leverage them for their own advocacy efforts Complementing this, Dominic provided critical insight into changes in public treatment listing negotiations and shared updates on the pCPA’s patient engagement strategy.

Graham Statt (I2U), Rebeccah Marsh (Institute of Health Economics), and Dominic Tan (pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance) discussed the evolving landscape of treatment access. The conversation was moderated by Beth Kidd and Scott McRae providing opening and closing remarks from the Health Coalition of Alberta.

This conversation marked a turning point, shifting from asking “Why can’t we access this?” to exploring “What needs to change so we can?” This was an important dialogue about bridging innovation and real-world access by applying the right tools at the right time.