The focus of the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation is health system innovation in complex chronic disease prevention, management and care.
- Health services and policy research is the core area of expertise supplemented by clinical and population health research.
- The work will examine the fundamentals of prevention and care (patient-oriented research about quality) in complex chronic disease.
- Each of the theme areas will include health informatics and metrics, intervention and health outcomes research, and knowledge translation, including health economics and policy. Each theme will have an international linkage, and is flexible in terms of content, linkages among themes, and relative size.
- Understanding complex chronic disease and its determinants will be an umbrella theme.
- Each team combines clinical, administrative and research expertise, including policymakers and patient/family members.
- A post doctoral fellow and at least one Bridgepoint Health lead will be included on each inaugural theme.
Excellence in Complex Chronic Disease Quality and Safety
What are the fundamentals of care in our patient population? What are the simple, complicated and complex questions that need to be addressed in complex chronic disease clinical practice? What works with whom and under what conditions? What are the best approaches in continuity of care with these patients? This theme includes research on best practice in health services and clinical care for people with complex chronic disease. Learn more...
Innovation in Complex Chronic Disease Training
What are the basic skills required for complex chronic disease practitioners? Who needs these skills? What sort of training will contribute to team effectiveness? How should training be delivered for maximum transfer and use? This theme will incorporate research groups interested in education and training. Learn more...
Primary Care and Complex Chronic Disease
Who is the complex chronic disease population? What are the metrics required in primary care? What approaches will maximize health and quality of life outcomes? Primary care and family health practices provide an important role in complex chronic disease prevention, treatment and support for patients and their families. Learn more..
LiveWell! Prevention of Complex Chronic Disease
How can we maximize efforts to change the course of illness? How can we reduce the impact and burden for individuals and families? How can we support self-management strategies? The most substantial impact on reducing the effects of complex chronic disease can be made through the act of prevention and management. Learn more...
Excellence in Health Care Facility Design
Billions of dollars are being spent on the design and construction of new health care facilities. Is our design on the right track to fit the needs of complex chronic disease patients and for their associated health care practitioners? What are the lessons to be learned here?
The new Bridgepoint Hospital provides an unprecedented opportunity, and a natural experiment, to test its impact on health and well being, safety and other physical and social elements of prevention and care in complex chronic disease. Learn more...
The Collaboratory is always looking for new and innovative project ideas and collaborative opportunities. If you would like to submit an idea, please contact us at: research@bridgepointhealth.ca