Innovation Anthology #746:

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Alberta has a very high rate of premature births.

These babies need care for several days or weeks in neonatal intensive care units.

But this intervention can leave parents on the outside looking in and unprepared to care for their babies once they come home.

Dr Karen Benzies is a nursing researcher leading a new study across Alberta to help change that situation.  

It’s funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions and Alberta Health Services.

DR KAREN BENZIES:  We know that in terms of how to support infants and young children to develop that we need to focus on these early relationships with parents, grandparents and other people. Parents aren’t familiar with the technological environment in the nursery and they feel sometimes like passive bystanders or visitors   So it disrupts their ideas, their expectations. But we always know we can do better.

Dr. Karen Benzies says the study will enroll 600 families of preterm infants over the next 12 to 18 months.

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: 2016-01-05