Connected Health Data for Canadian Care Delivery
Meet Smile Digital Health at e-Health 2026
Smile Digital Health helps healthcare organizations modernize fragmented systems into unified, interoperable health data foundations built on HL7® FHR®
e-Health 2026
June 14-16, 2026
Halifax Convention Centre, NS
Booth: #46
Bill S-5: The Push for Connected Healthcare Data
Federal Bill S-5, the Connected Care for Canadians Act, reflects a growing national focus on reducing information blocking and improving interoperability across the Canadian healthcare ecosystem.. The legislation targets information blocking to ensure that providers can receive complete, comprehensive, and usable patient information, at the point of care when it is needed most. A unified and validated data foundation which can be used for clinical, operational, and population health management, has never been more essential.
Under the proposed legislation, vendors must adhere to new requirements:
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No More "Locked" Data: Reducing barriers created by proprietary architectures.
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Usability Mandate: Receiving systems must be able to read and integrate the data provided.
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Standards-led: Interoperability standards such as FHIR® are increasingly referenced across Canadian interoperability initiatives and federal guidance discussions for data ingestion, exchange and API access
Smile Digital Health is a CanadianHealth Technology Company Delivering Enterprise Interoperability Solutions built on HL7®FHIR® Standards
How Smile Supports the Canadian Healthcare Ecosystem
Smile OmniVera provides the foundational framework to move ecosystems from the currently fragmented (often legacy or vendor-locked) silos of data, workflows and processes to validated, queryable, semantically structured and standardized data.
OmniVera addresses Bill S-5 by:
- No Vendor Lock-in: Consolidating and standardizing data from all fragmented systems into a single source-of-truth health repository, that is usable and exchangeable
- Ensuring Data Sovereignty: Ensuring Canadian health information governed by Canadian governance frameworks and legal requirements
- National Scale: Validating data quality and accuracy at the ingestion source, with the ability to expand at mega-volumes
- Cross-jurisdictional capability: Smile’s solutions support FHIR-based IPS (International Patient Summary) to ensure coordinated and timely care across borders.
- Proven Expertise: Leveraging national implementation expertise from FHIR implementations in Australia, Malaysia, the US, and public health agencies like the WHO and the CDC
Where To Start
Start with Computable Data
Smile Omni provides a unified FHIR-native foundation that powers interoperability, computable quality and delivers intelligent automations, while reducing manual burdens.
✓ 190+ global implementations
✓ Maintainers of HAPI FHIR (world's prevailing FHIR implementation)
✓ Contributors to 30+ HL7 FHIR working groups
Explore a Provincial Information Exchange Modernized with Smile OmniVera
Start Implementing with Smile Omni
Investment in one modernization use-case solves all downstream initiatives. Start where your needs are greatest, such as meeting Bill S-5 compliance, and expand without expensive reinvestment.
Smile Omni operates on the same trusted computable data.
