Providing Meaningful and Actionable Health System Performance Information: CIHI’s ‘Your Health System’ Tools

How can we bring together multidimensional health system performance data in a simplified way that is easy to access and provides comparable and actionable information to accelerate improvements in health care? The Canadian Institute for Health Information has developed a suite of tools to meet performance measurement needs across different audiences, to identify improvement priorities, understand how health regions and facilities compare with peers and support transparency and accountability. The pan-Canadian tools [Your Health System (YHS)] consolidates reporting of 45 key performance indicators in a structured way, and are comparable over time and at different geographic levels. This paper outlines the development and the methodological approaches and considerations taken to create a dynamic tool that facilitates benchmarking and meaningful comparisons for health system performance improvement.