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Innovarium
Innovarium is Providence Health Care’s innovation engine that connects people, systems, infrastructure, and partners to accelerate health innovation.
Innovarium has many complementary but separate elements that have their own unique identity and focus.
Ideas: Forward
A place for all staff to go when they have a great idea but are not sure how to make it a reality.
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PHC Ventures
A subsidiary of PHC that co-develops health solutions, forges unconventional partnerships, facilitates consulting relationships with PHC clinicians, and invests in health start-ups, generating proceeds that can be reinvested back into PHC and the health system.
PHIR+E
Providence Research’s innovation arm advances important research ideas by connecting the right individuals, academic institutions, governments, and companies.
Department of Medicine Innovation Platform
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.
Research Challenge and Knowledge Translation Challenge
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.
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.
Quality Improvement
Driven by data, the QI team identifies opportunities to improve the quality of care and experience for residents, patients, families, friends, and caregivers. They also run the QI Challenge, a professional development program designed for all Providence staff and care providers to learn to use the Providence QI Framework to make lasting improvements in their work area.
Discover, Learn, and Innovate for Impact Physician Advisory Committee
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.
St. Paul’s Foundation
Thanks to generous donors, St. Paul’s Foundation supports patients, residents, caregivers, and families at St. Paul’s Hospital, at Providence Health Care’s other hospitals and care sites across BC, and at Providence Living’s long-term care homes.
New St. Paul’s Hospital
The right care by the right provider, in the right place at the right time. The new St. Paul's Hospital is a huge opportunity to build an innovative and integrated hospital from the ground up. The hospital will continue to be an acute care, teaching and research hospital. Opening 2027.
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Clinical Informatics
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.
