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The
Canada Research Chair on Innovations
in Health
The Canada Research Chair on Health
Innovations was held from June 2005 to
June 2015 by Pascale Lehoux, Professor
with the Department of Health
Administration at University of
Montreal.
Health
technology research has mainly been
concerned with "downstream" factors,
i.e. efficacy, safety and costs of
technologies once they are introduced in
the health care system.
This
Chair shifted focus
and examined "upstream" factors that
have an impact on the ultimate use and
dissemination of health technologies,
e.g. the design process itself,
including needs analyses, design
strategies, market constraints and
opportunities and how stakeholders steer
the innovation process.
The Chair
generated knowledge that is useful for
health care systems to continue adopting
innovations while fulfilling the health
needs of their population. Many of the
choices made upstream determine the
costs, the types of settings where
technologies are used, and the levels of
skills required to use them
appropriately.
The Chair
has investigated four research
themes that have prompted
many knowledge
transfer and exchange activities.
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