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The Department of Medicine Innovation Platform is the avenue for Department members to address a gap in care at PHC. Initiative can span divisions, departments and beyond. 

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The PHC Practice-based Research Challenge is an annual competition open to point-of-care PHC staff. The Research Challenge offers research teams the opportunity to work with a mentor to develop a research proposal around a research question. 

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The Knowledge Translation (KT) Challenge is designed to support teams of PHC and VCH clinicians who may not have much KT expertise but are responsible for moving evidence into practice. Successful applications to the KT Challenge will receive funding and training to learn the basics of knowledge translation and to support a KT initiative. 

Find out about the next KT Challenge 

The Planetary Health Awards help fund projects or ideas that will reduce PHC’s greenhouse gas emissions and/or benefit planetary health, while improving care for patients/residents and the health care system. 

Learn more and apply for a Planetary Health Award 

This team brings the physician’s voice to PHC’s strategic priorities around learning and innovation, with a goal of nurturing and supporting innovative and disruptive ideas that transform care in BC and around the world. 

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The Quality Improvement (QI) team identifies opportunities to improve the quality of care and experience for residents, patients, families, friends, and caregivers. They work with the PHC Quality & Safety dashboards, patient and resident experience surveys, case reviews, NSQIP and Patient Safety Learning System (PSLS) reports to gather data to inform their work. The team also offers the Quality Improvement Challenge for all PHC staff and ​providers interested in gaining introductory QI knowledge and skill to make lasting improvement in their work environment. 

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Clinical Informatics aims to deliver person and family-centered care through health information systems that support efficient clinical workflows, best practice standards, and data-informed decision-making. 

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Value-Based Health Care is an approach focused on achieving health outcomes that matter most to patients and families ​across the full cycle of care, relative to the cost of delivering that care. Value-Based Health Care drives us to understand what’s important to patients, how effective we are at improving their lives, and what care provides the best outcomes for the money we spend. If you have an idea to improve health outcomes that matter most to patients,  contact the value-based health care team.