Perspectives

July 2, 2026

Defensive medicine is an American default. Canadian care was never meant to work that way.

Defensive medicine — ordering tests to avoid lawsuits, not because patients need them — is a structural feature of US healthcare. Canada's single-payer system was never built on that logic. Here's what that means for point-of-care tools.

July 2, 2026

Evidence and cost, together: how Canadian care is already value-based — and what that means at the point of care.

Canadian guideline bodies like CADTH and INESSS evaluate evidence and cost-effectiveness together by design. That's not rationing — it's stewardship. Here's what it means at the point of care, and how Evidens operationalizes it.