The Canadian Council on Integrated Healthcare (CCIH) seeks to improve Canada’s healthcare system by eliminating traditional silos and building bridges between different sectors inside and outside the healthcare system. To accomplish this, we endorse concepts and approaches and then disseminate them among key healthcare stakeholders.

Conceived in 1997, the CCIH is driven by the emergence of several key trends in the Canadian healthcare system. These include:

• rising healthcare costs and concerns over sustainability of funding
• advances in information and healthcare technologies
• the redefinition of key health-related responsibilities of employers
• the need for integration and collaboration among stakeholders across the continuum of healthcare

The original intent of the CCIH was to bring together key opinion leaders from across the Canadian private healthcare sector to exchange views and propose solutions for the evolving management of healthcare in Canada. More recently, the Council has broadened its membership to include expertise from consumer, health professional and political perspectives.
The CCIH is the only national, multi-stakeholder professional forum in Canada working to encourage constructive and inclusive dialogue on challenging health-related issues.

The activities of the CCIH are funded through an arm’s-length, unrestricted educational grant from sanofi-aventis. The CCIH also acknowledges the support it receives in time and assistance from its members and their employers.