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Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Mr. Don DrummondFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group Don Drummond is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at TD Financial Group. He retired from TD to his current role as Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Policy Studies at Queens University. Prior to joining…
6 December 2012Edmonton, Alberta Introductory Remarks – Government of Alberta Honourable Fred Horne, Minister of Healthhttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56013748 Keynote Presentation Mr. Don Drummond, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Grouphttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/56036522 Panel Discussion ModeratorDr. Annette Trimbee,…
6 December 2012 Edmonton, Alberta Value for Money in the Health System was the eighth in the series of Innovation Forums. The keynote speaker, Mr. Don Drummond, Matthews Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Policy Studies at Queens University, and a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Government of Canada, as well as a former Senior Vice President…
Stroke Prevention and Management in Primary Care: a free forum at the 2012 Accelerating Primary Care Conference Sunday, 18 November 2012 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta Stroke Update 2012 was a free forum for primary care clinicians, held in conjunction with the annual Accelerating Primary Care conference in Banff, Alberta, November 18, 2012. The forum brought together…
18 – 19 October 2012 Canmore, Alberta The EQ-5D is a standardized instrument developed by the EuroQol group for use as a measure of health outcome. It considers five dimensions of health-related quality of life: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression. When the need for greater collaboration around implementation and use of the EQ-5D in Alberta…
Biographies Stirling Bryan National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Experience with Using the EQ-5D in Economic Analysis Dr. Stirling Bryan is a professor in UBC's School of Population & Public Health, and Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Bryan is an economist with a career-long specialization…
Thurs 18 Oct 2012 | Fri 19 Oct 2012 Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Charlene McBrien-Morrison, Executive Director, Health Quality Council of Alberta Steve Buick, Director of Policy and Communications, Institute of Health Economics Kathryn Todd, Senior Vice President, Research, Alberta Health Services 09:00 – 09:30 EQ-5D - Building Common Understanding…
This project is concerned with describing a comprehensive set of HTA products, not the methods used to produce them. The report describes various products produced by HTA agencies and provides a summary of the basic elements of these products, but an in-depth analysis of, or comparison between, the various products in terms of their methodology is beyond its scope. Information…
30 July 2012 Montréal, Québec The concept of “personalized medicine” in health is garnering increased attention. Personalized medicine can be defined as the tailoring of preventive, diagnostic, or therapeutic interventions to the characteristics of an individual or population. This may involve genetic or laboratory biomarker information. As personalized…
Monday, 30 July 2012Montréal, Québec Welcome, Introductions, and Overview John Sproule, IHEDon Husereau, University of Ottawa Roundtable Discussion – Assessment of System Readiness Moderator: John Sproule Is the current state of adoption and implementation ideal? What should the goals be for personalized medicine in Canada? What are the components of a vision…
31 May 2012 Edmonton, Alberta
Social Determinants of Health is the seventh IHE Innovation Forum, a semi-annual event bringing together senior public- and private-sector experts and decision-makers to address health care policy issues.
Key Forum Documents
Innovation Forum VII – Social Determinants of Health – FINAL PROGRAMDownload Final Program
Speaker Biographies Keynote Speaker Sir Michael MarmotDirector, Institute of Health Equity and MRC Research Professor in Epidemiology, University College London Sir Michael Marmot has led a research group on health inequalities for the past 30 years. He has been invited by the Regional Director of WHO Euro to conduct a European review of health inequalities. At the request of the…
31 May 2012Edmonton, Alberta Welcome and Introductions Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Chair, Institute of Health EconomicsDownload Presentation http://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44105094 Dr. Chris Mazurkewich, Executive Vice President and CEO, Alberta Health Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/45175125 Honourable David Hancock, Minister of Human Serviceshttp://vimeo.com/channels/907291/44087423 …
| Paula Corabian, Dagmara Chojecki, Christa Harstall
This exploratory report provides a summary of some of the published information on the current status of research in and potential future sphere of activity of nanomedicine (Part I) and an inventory of resources on nanotechnology and nanomedicine (Part II). Over the next 5 to 10 years it is expected that the overall impact of nanomedicine will be multifaceted, with significant…
| Carmen Moga, Bing Guo, Don Schopflocher, Christa Harstall
This Methodology Paper summarizes the process, a modified Delphi approach, used to develop a specific checklist for the quality appraisal of case series studies. This work was supplemented with a review of other published checklists and an initial pilot test of the newly developed quality appraisal checklist. Researchers at the Institute of Health Economics with researchers from…
| Anne-Marie Boström, Susan E Slaughter, Dagmara Chojecki, Carole Estabrooks
OBJECTIVES: The recent emphasis on knowledge translation (KT) in health care is based on the premise that quality of care improves when research findings are translated into practice. This study aimed to identify the extent, nature, and settings of KT research pertaining to the care of older adults.
This report describes a framework for evaluating policies developed within the Alberta Health Technologies Decision Process (AHTDP) to strengthen the link between policy development and evidence. The framework was designed as a foundation upon which to build a more detailed and contextualized evaluative process in consultation with all stakeholders who are likely to be affected…
6 – 7 February 2012 Edmonton, Alberta As part of the Alberta Ambassador Guideline Adaptation Program, in February 2012, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in partnership with the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) sponsored a two day meeting of content, administrative and research experts to identify the breadth of diagnostic imaging studies that CIHI might feasibly…
11 – 12 January 2012 Ottawa, Ontario The IHE has established a series of methodologic forums with the intent of identifying and addressing major methodological challenges in informing policies and decisions around the funding and use of health technologies, in partnership with its private and public stakeholders that are involved in the production of evidence and use of assessment.…
Speakers Dr. Jeffrey Hoch Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Director Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario Dr. Stuart Peacock Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia; Co-Director, Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control Mr. Don Husereau…
Wednesday – Thursday, 11 – 12 January 2012Ottawa, Ontario Selected Plenary Presentations from Health Canada/CIHR Workshop Measuring Value in Personalized MedicineDr. Deborah Marshallhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35735037 HTA Assessment in Australia - Challenges for Personalized MedicineDr. Robyn Wardhttp://player.vimeo.com/video/35785570 Stratified Medicine - Observations…
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Report #25. This report is a systematic review of the literature on the use of computerized electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation for detecting heart conditions as a part of routine medical examinations in healthy adults. The aim of this report is to inform practitioners and other interested parties on the available…