Who we are
Innovarium is Providence Health Care’s innovation engine that connects people, systems, infrastructure, and partners to accelerate health innovation.
This platform helps us address substantial, widespread challenges within our communities. We want to improve care and achieve better outcomes for people throughout BC and beyond, particularly for those with complex medical and social needs.
Our goal is to sustainably improve health care.
Building an innovation engine
At Providence Health Care, innovation is embedded in every part of the organization. Innovarium connects those parts to drive change.
We provide cohesion and internal support for improvements, advancements and new ways of doing things – people need resources, systems, and a place to go.
Innovarium offers a unique depth of integration across care, research, teaching and outreach, providing industry innovators with connections to thought leaders and a clinical environment for in-clinic evaluation. We also provide a pathway to system implementation and global partnerships.
Continuum of innovation at Providence
Providence Health Care is home to world-renowned innovators who have made seemingly impossible discoveries, but innovation at Providence also encompasses systemic, practical, and tangible improvements in care and clinical practices.
Whether you're a Providence medical professional, administrator, researcher, nurse, or allied health professional, you can be an innovator - and likely already are. All you need is curiosity, a passion for discovery, and a drive to improve health care.
At Providence, we consider all of the following innovation:
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Quality improvement
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Modernization
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Research and knowledge translation
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Innovation
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Disruptive innovation
Innovarium Elements
Innovarium has many complementary but separate elements that have their own unique identity and focus.