Dr. Yvonne Smyth:

-----the unique health identifier is also very important. We know an ehealth system is a tremendous undertaking and massive investment but a unique health identifier is key to all of this data collection. We can at least know that if a person presents to a hospital, he or she is the same person that presents to another if we are trying to clean our data set. I know from IT colleagues locally that it is sitting there in the background. It is not turned on. We need a unique health identifier, we need one number per person.