Canada’s moment to be a global leader in providing next generation, precision health care to its citizens is now. Through Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster, innovators will take bold action in the $8.7 trillion global health and biosciences marketplace to create and establish a Secure Health and Genomic Platform (the SHGP).

Currently, valuable data in the health care space is siloed, with research and clinical data distributed in many local repositories across the country: there is no currently national platform for health and genomic data.  This reality is stymying the ability of researchers and clinicians to advance the development and implementation of genomic technologies and precision health initiatives.

The Secure Health and Genomic Platform (SHGP) will be an integrated, secure, scalable, pan-Canadian solution for genomics and precision health. This digital platform will democratize access to secure storage, analysis, and sharing of genomics, clinical, and health information datasets to accelerate discoveries and the implementation of precision health innovation on a national basis. The SHGP will build two unique areas as part of the industry solution, where users will interact with unique bioinformatics tools to load, search and share through a Data Library and an Application Marketplace.