An article last week by Ivy Lynn
Bourgeault, CIHR/Health Canada Research Chair in Health Human
Resource Policy at the University of Ottawa and the lead of the pan Canadian
Health Human Resources Network, discussed the innovations and promising
practices discussed in the recent report, From
Innovation to Action.
Bourgeault
questioned how these practices were chosen as those which should be scaled up
to improve health care in Canada overall. Was an evidence-based approach taken
in the choice of these innovations? Are these truly new and innovative?
We have developed
a set of criteria and an evaluation
framework to support the
identification of innovative practices that have been demonstrated to
strengthen the health care system.
Our framework
outlines three levels of innovative practices:
Leading: Practices
with widely accepted evidence of having a positive impact, wide recognition
and/or breadth of implementation.
Promising:
Practices that are at intermediate stages of implementation; have some outcomes
data showing positive impact, may have some recognition outside of original
setting and outreach for implementation elsewhere.
Emerging: Practices
that are in preliminary stages of development; may have little to no outcomes
data collected, may not be widely recognized.
The framework
uses evaluation criteria of outcomes and impact, recognisability, and
applicability / transferability.
Check out the
full framework and criteria on
our website, and stay tuned
for the launch of an online hub / database of innovative practices in the fall.
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