The CIHI Portal team is pleased to announce the successful completion of Release 18.5. The highlight of CIHI Portal Release 18.5 is the release of new and refreshed Canadian MIS Database (CMDB) data in the ad hoc Portal CMDB project.
CMDB environment update
Data coverage
5 fiscal years of data are included in this release: 2017–2018 to 2021–2022. Because the project holds 5 years of data, the 2016–2017 fiscal year is no longer available.
This release refreshes the 2017–2018 to 2020–2021 data years and adds the 2021–2022 data year.
Coverage includes all provinces and territories except Quebec and Nunavut.
Data components
Please refer to the CMDB Metadata document on the CIHI Portal Support web page for further details. CIHI Portal users with questions about CMDB data methodology or interpretation should contact CIHI’s Financial Standards and Information team at fsi@cihi.ca.
CMDB eReports
We did not make any changes to the CMDB eReporting product. There are 4 groups of reports in CMDB eReports:
- MISnapshot: This interactive application provides you with a concise snapshot of a health service organization’s key metric/indicator values, a time-series depiction of changes in these values and a comparison of these values with ones from similar organizations.
- MISpheres: This multi-dimensional interactive application provides you with a visual representation of the relationship between metric values of different health service organizations in different functional centres over time (over a 5-year period). You can select and display 3 different metrics for a particular organization and functional centre combination at a time.
- Custom reports: This more flexible analysis tool allows you to select an indicator, fiscal year, peer group and attribute for 4 different reports:
- MIS MacroMetric: Organization Analysis
- MIS MacroMetric: Functional Centre Analysis
- Summary MacroMetric
- Summary MicroMetric
- Staffing indicators: This downloadable spreadsheet contains indicators that can be used by health system managers to inform staffing and resource decisions. Researchers and decision-makers can use this information to understand the Canadian health workforce by making local, provincial and national comparisons.