Alberta Clinical Research Consortium Session #3 – Digital Health & Virtual Research

Presented by the Alberta Clinical Research Consortium Speakers: Trina Johnson, Christie McLeod Description: Connect Care Research Functionality Connect Care as an initiative includes the implementation of various tools and functionality that can be utilized to support clinical health research and inquiry inside and alongside AHS clinical spaces. The research module within Connect Care serves to […]

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Alberta Clinical Research Consortium Satellite Session #1: Digital Health and Virtual Research

Presented by the Alberta Clinical Research Consortium Description: AHS’s MyCare Conversations App: Balancing medico-legal concerns with the patient’s right to record clinical conversations – (Speaker: Linda Watson) -We-TRAC (Wearable Technology Research and Collaboration) – (Speaker: Reed Ferber) -Be the Cure: The history and development of www.BeTheCure.ca – (Speaker: Mari Boesen) *Recording form the AbSPORU Virtual […]

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Sustaining Long-term Impact in POR: How to make your research matter in the long term

Moderator: Dr. Rachel Flynn | Panelists: Dr. Karen Benzies & Jeanna Morrissey Description: Integrating patient-centered research findings into routine care is complex and requires thoughtful and calculated considerations. It is important to consider the long term impact (or sustainability) of the research initiative early on, to ensure that the positive impacts can continue past the […]

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Co-designing an Evaluation Tool Using an Adaptive, Virtual Approach

Speakers: Eileen Keogh, Candace Ramjohn, Erin Fought, Laura McAlpine Description: The AbSPORU KT Platform brought together a team to co-design an evaluation tool that will enable a broad range of users to easily incorporate implementation outcomes into Alberta Quality Matrix for Health-based evaluations. This project involves ongoing collaboration between intended users of the evaluation tool, […]

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Connect Care From the Patients’ Perspective

Speakers: Connie Stuhl, Lona Leiren, Jennifer Rees, Barb Kathol, Kim Kisko Description: This presentation explores Connect Care from the patient perspective. Patients hear a lot about Connect Care, but may not understand its processes and how it has been developed and why. The presenters provide a “lay” background on Connect Care and its implementation in […]

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Storytelling for Policy & Health System Impact

Presenter: Rani Sanderson (StoryCentre Canada http://www.storycentre.ca/) Description: There is a definite buzz around storytelling these days, and there is such huge potential to harness the power in personal narratives for positive change. Storytelling is a great way to explore a wide diversity of experiences, bring awareness to issues through personal reflection and connect people through […]

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Wabishki Bizhiko Skaanj Learning Pathway

Speakers: (CAN-Solve CKD Network:) Helen Robinson-Setee, Arlene Desjarlais, Catherine Turner, Craig Setee; (Saskatchewan Centre for Patient-Oriented Research:) Dr. Malcolm King Description: “Wabishki Bizhiko Skaanj (wah-bish-kih biish-ih-goo skaa-nch) is a learning pathway that aims to enhance researchers’ knowledge and awareness of racial biases, Indigenous voices and stories, the impact of colonization on Indigenous health, and culturally […]

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Cirrhosis Care Alberta

Presenter: Dr. Puneeta Tandon Description: Cirrhosis Care Alberta (CCAB) is a 3-year multi-component system-wide quality improvement program which aims to improve quality of care, reduce acute care utilization and meet the needs of both patients and providers throughout Alberta. Instead of addressing just a single contributor to acute care utilization, this ambitious intervention will be […]

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