The crisis in Canadian healthcare isn’t cost, rather the lack of value. Rebuilding the system starts with bringing innovation into everyday care.
Canada’s healthcare system is standing at a breaking point.
We spent $399B this year ($9,626 per person), which is the highest share of GDP in our history, yet Canadians are not getting healthier. Instead, hospitals are overcrowded, and clinicians are burning out. Something simply isn’t adding up.
So we have to ask: What is “value” in healthcare?
For decades, value has been confused with cost. Our health systems have been pushed to buy the lowest-priced products and cut budget wherever possible. But here’s the reality: Canada has spent years lowering costs without raising outcomes. Cheaper has made the healthcare more expensive.
Value isn’t about spending less — it’s about achieving better outcomes for every dollar. Value-based healthcare invests in innovations that improve patient recovery and optimize workflow — even if they cost more upfront.
Sustainable healthcare means moving from chasing the lowest price to investing in higher-value products that save money over time by improving care from the start.
Shaping the future of value-based care
B. Braun advances value-based healthcare by designing products that strengthen patient outcomes both inside and outside the hospital. Its innovations prioritize patient safety, workflow efficiency, and complication reduction, allowing clinicians to have more time for patient care.
With a robust portfolio of home-care solutions for infusion therapy and wound management, patients can heal safely, comfortably, and with fewer hospital visits. Examples include Easypump®, which provides safe home infusions for patients while lightening hospital demand and saving the healthcare system nearly $5000 per patient. Introcan Safety® Deep Access helps improve first-attempt success. And Prontosan® prevents complications with effective wound cleansing. This is the future of value-based healthcare: high-quality solutions that improve patient outcomes while strengthening the sustainability of Canada’s healthcare system.
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