Innovation Anthology #726:

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SPOR is an acronym for Strategy for Patient Oriented Research.  

It’s a federal initiative which is being rolled out in Alberta by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.

Dr. Virginia Vandall-Walker from Athabasca University is leading the platform  focused on patient engagement.

DR VIRGINIA VANDELL-WALKER:   Patient Oriented Research and Patient Engaged Research can have slightly different meanings.  We are the Patient Engagement platform and our vision is that patients will be involved with researchers across the spectrum of research activity from not just being a participant who fills out a survey or takes a treatment, but gets involved with deciding what questions are important to be asked.  As a person with a particular disease or having experienced a certain clinical experience, what questions do I have because of that?  And it might be something the researchers would like to carry forward and being involved with them as consultants.

Dr. Vandall-Walker says Canada is following the lead of Britain, Australia and the United States to implement patient oriented research.

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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: 2015-10-22