Innovation Anthology #363:

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Getting more bang for the buck is a huge topic of concern in health care.

The new Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration will look at better ways to deliver treatment to patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and kidney disease.

The team will receive five million dollars over five years from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.

Dr. Marcello Tonelli is a kidney specialist at the University of Alberta and one of the team leaders.

He gives one example where combining tests identifies patients at higher risk which saves time and money

DR. MARCELLO TONELLI: The traditional way of identifying people for example with kidney disease is to use a blood based test. And our research shows that if you use a blood test together with a simple cheap, easily available urine test, you really narrow down the number of people that are at risk, and you identify the people who are at the most potential benefit of treatment. So we find where those people are, those at highest risk, it’s a much more manageable number. We locate them. And now we’re working with decision makers to design an interventional program that will make it easier for doctors to identify them and easier for doctors to refer them to the services that they need.

Dr. Tonelli says the chronic disease team includes specialists in medicine, nursing psychology, health economics, and geography.

Thanks today to ALBERTA INNOVATES HEALTH SOLUTIONS

FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

 

 

Program Date: 2010-12-21