Implementation resources
This page provides implementation guidance, educational resources and background materials.
Guides
Implementation Guide
This implementation guide serves to point out nuances and considerations in the common data model for vendors, implementors and other audiences.
Download the implementation guide (PDF)Pan-Canadian Gender, Sex and Sexual Orientation Data Standard: Guidance for Data Collection and Governance
This guidance documentation provides important recommendations around safe data collection and governance practices for gender, sex and sexual orientation (GSSO) information.
Download the guidance document (PDF)Indigenous Identity, Racialized Group, Ethnicity, and Religious or Spiritual Affiliations Data Standards: Guidance for Data Collection and Governance
This document provides important recommendations around safe data collection and governance practices for Indigenous Identity, Racialized Group, Ethnicity and Religious or Spiritual Affiliations data and information.
Download the guidance document (PDF)Feedback Disposition
Feedback Disposition V3
The Feedback Disposition document contains comments received during fall 2025 open review of the draft Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework. This document includes actions made and rationales in response to those comments.
Download Feedback Disposition V3 (XLSX)Previous Feedback Disposition
This Previous Feedback Disposition document contains comments received prior to the fall of 2025 related to the products of the Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework. These comments are prioritized for each version, along with actions made and rationales detailed in response to those comments.
Download Previous Feedback Disposition (XLSX)Webinars
From Lived Experiences to Action: Join the Conversation in Advancing Health Data for Connected Care
September 2025 Following the release of Version 2 of the Pan Canadian Health Data Content Framework, CIHI hosted a webinar on September 24, 2025. The webinar included a panel discussion with Claire Snyman, patient advocate, author and brain tumour survivor; Dr. Tetyana Maniuk, practising physician; and others who have contributed to the creation of these data content standards.
Watch a recording of this webinarAdditional Resources
Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy
This expert advisory group report from May 2022 reviews the imperative, approach and recommendations toward creating a Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy.
Read Pan Canadian Health Data Strategy (PDF)Shared Interoperability Roadmap
This May 2023 report leverages learnings from leading countries that have advanced interoperability to recognize a set of common building blocks that drive progress.
Read Shared Interoperability RoadmapInteroperability Saves Lives
This October 2023 report from the Alberta Virtual Care Coordinating Body concludes that comprehensive health data interoperability will elevate the safety of patients, among other benefits.
Read Interoperability Saves Lives (PDF)Data Disarray
This November 2024 report by the Alberta Virtual Care Coordinating Body examines the genesis of health data dysfunction by doing a root cause analysis of health data design in Canada.
Read Data Disarray (PDF)How to cite:
Canadian Institute for Health Information. Implementation resources. Accessed November 02, 2026.
