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Renewing the Social Contract: Economic Recovery in Canada from COVID-19

December 17, 2020

| Christopher Cotton, Christopher McCabe, Esllyt Jones, Evelyn Forget, Fabien Large, Lindsay Tedds, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warren, Richard Gold, Robin Boadway, Stewart Elgie, Stuart Peacock, Vic Adamowicz

The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 was established early in 2020 to equip Canadians with accurate information about Canadian response and recovery. A number of Working Groups were established included one on COVID-19 and Economic Recovery which is chaired by the Institute of Health Economics’ CEO, Dr. Chris McCabe. Their report, "Renewing the Social Contract:…

Initiatives to accelerate the diagnostic phase of cancer care: An environmental scan

October 25, 2018

| Michelle Pollock, Rodger Craig, Dagmara Chojecki, Bing Guo

This environmental scan describes existing initiatives that aim to accelerate the diagnostic phase of cancer care in Alberta, Canada, and internationally. Specifically, it describes their development and implementation, structure and functioning, intended outcomes and effectiveness, costs and cost savings, and enablers and barriers.

Exploratory brief on glucose monitoring technologies

January 26, 2017

| Paula Corabian, Dagmara Chojecki

This report provides a summary of recently published information (January 2015 to present) regarding the glucose monitoring technologies that are commercially available in North America, as well as those that are emerging within the next five years (up to 2021).

Oxygen therapy in acute care settings

November 24, 2016

| Carmen Moga, Dagmara Chojecki

This overview report provides a summary of the published information on the oxygen therapy issues studied in the past 10 years in the acute care settings. The report includes a summary of audit studies that aimed to address appropriate/inappropriate use of oxygen, and explores the safety and quality issues identified in the literature about oxygen prescription, administration,…

Medical device and diagnostic pricing and reimbursement in Canada

July 17, 2015

| Don Husereau, Larry Arshoff, Shahira Bhimani, Nicola Allen

This document describes the entry of new medical devices into the Canadian health system. It is intended to provide an accurate description of new medical device entry in Canada, and is intended to give patients, the public, private and public sector health system researchers, medical device companies, and private and public coverage bodies a general understanding of what regulatory,…

Optimizing adoption and diffusion of medical devices at the system level

May 29, 2015

| Ann Scott, Dion Pasichnyk, Christa Harstall, Dagmara Chojecki

This Information Paper is an inventory and broad summary of factors affecting the adoption and diffusion of health technologies and of available models, strategies, tools, and processes for optimizing health technology diffusion.

Rheumatoid arthritis in a policy perspective: A registry for research and better treatment of Albertans

March 31, 2015

| Deborah Marshall, Egon Jonsson, Liam Martin, Diane Mosher, Karen V. MacDonald

This White Paper discusses the concept of developing a comprehensive rheumatoid arthritis registry in Alberta, and the important health, social, and economic gains such a resource would generate for Alberta.

Practices for implementing effective public advisory groups of lay people or members of the general public

April 01, 2014

| Carmen Moga, Christa Harstall

This report has been produced in response to a request from Alberta Health (AH). The objective was to perform a review of practices of engaging committees composed of lay people or members of the general public at international, national, provincial, and regional levels. The review attempts to address the following questions: What scientific evidence is available about committees…

Exploratory Brief on Nanomedicine or the Application of Nanotechnology in Human Health Care

March 21, 2012

| 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…

Telehealth in Substance Abuse and Addiction: Review of the Literature on Smoking, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Gambling

June 01, 2010

| Arto Ohinmaa, Trish Chatterley, Thanh Nguyen, Philip Jacobs

This report reviews the evidence of telehealth in substance abuse and addiction including the literature on smoking, alcohol, drug abuse and gambling. The included telehealth technologies include videoconferencing, computer, Internet, and telephone.

Means Restriction for Suicide Prevention

January 03, 2010

| Bing Guo, Christa Harstall, Trish Chatterley

This report on Means Restriction for Suicide Prevention provides a summary of information regarding national means restriction policies/strategies and national/provincial intentional overdose prevention policies/strategies and their effectiveness. Policies/strategies that focus on children, youth, and young adults are of particular interest. This report consists of two parts: Part…

Financial Incentives to Physician Practices: A literature review of evaluations of physician remuneration models

March 19, 2009

| Charles Yan, JoAnn Kingston-Riechers, Anderson Chuck

This report provides information regarding the impact of physician reimbursement models on five dimensions specified in the Provincial Alternate Relationship Plan Program Evaluation. The impact of physician reimbursement models were assessed on the following five dimensions: Health service utilization Access to care Quality of services Patient satisfaction Physician satisfaction…

CT and MRI Services in Alberta: Comparisons With Other Health Care Systems

November 01, 2008

| David Hailey

This report presents summary information on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in Alberta, with comparison to the use of these diagnostic imaging technologies in other jurisdictions. The aims of the report are to: illustrate the capacity in Alberta to diagnose and manage health problems with the help of these important technolgies compare the numbers,…

The Use of Nitric Oxide in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

April 09, 2007

| Gregory Duchscherer, Bing Guo

Safety and efficacy of inhaled nitric oxide in the management of hypoxemic respiratory failure in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome. This report was prepared in collaboration with the Health Technology Assessment program of the Institute of Health Economics, SEARCH Canada, and Calgary Health Region. It focuses on the published scientific evidence regarding the safety…

Screening Newborns for Cystic Fibrosis

February 13, 2007

| Bing Guo

A successful screening program for cystic fibrosis (CF) refers to the ability of the program to appropriately identify and refer for care those with CF, while meeting the needs of those who do not have CF, particularly those infants identified by the screening program as carriers (individuals unaffected by CF but have a mutation in one of their CFTR genes). Some measures of success…

The Use and Benefits of Teleoncology

January 09, 2007

| David Hailey, Marie-Josée Paquin, Olga Maciejewski, Linda Harris, Ann Casebeer, Gordon Fick, Patti Taschuk, Anthony Fields

Teleoncology: Applications and associated benefits for the adult population. This report determines the current state of evidence on teleoncology applications to improve access to care closer to home for rural patients and families affected by a diagnosis of cancer. It follows an earlier report by Marie-Josée Paquin prepared as part of her participation in the SEARCH Classic…

The triangle of enhancement medicine, disabled people, and the concept of health - a new challenge for HTA, health research and health policy

December 01, 2005

| Gregor Wolbring

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Initiative #23. This report is intended as a discussion primer for two challenges increasingly faced by health technology assessment (HTA), health impact assessment (HIA), health needs assessment, parliamentary technology assessment (PTA), participatory technology assessment, policy makers in numerous areas, health care…

Institutional Medical Incident Reporting Systems - A Review

August 01, 2005

| Anita Simon, Robert Lee, David Cooke, Diane Lorenzetti

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Initiative #17. This paper focuses on incident reporting systems relevant to the hospital and efforts to improve patient safety and clinical outcomes. Costs associated with incident reporting systems are included wherever possible. This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of hospital incident reporting systems in improving…

Risk management for Health Technology Assessment Programs

May 01, 2005

| David Hailey, Don Juzwishin

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) HTA Initiative #19. The intent is to develop an overview as a guide to HTA managers; this paper should be regarded as a vehicle for further discussion on these issues. NOTE: In 2006 the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research HTA unit moved to IHE. Documents produced in and prior to 2006 have different formats; the…

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