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Investing in Innovation is our Future...Budget Moves in the Right Direction…
The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), is encouraged by Budget 2010 in its recognition of the role that research hospitals and their research institutes play in advancing the country’s innovation agenda.

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Video release: In Sickness & in Health - What does Patient Involvement in Health Research Really Mean? An ACAHO- CIHR Cafe Scientifique, May 6, 2010
In ACAHO-member organizations, which are first and foremost patient care organizations, vibrant research enterprises involve patients and families in life-saving research and innovation. What type of research happens in academic healthcare organizations? This was the topic of the May 6, 2010 CIHR-ACAHO Cafe Scientifique on Patient Involvement in Health Research.

Investing in Innovation is our Future...ACAHO Responds to Federal Budget

The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO), is encouraged by Budget 2010 in its recognition of the role that research hospitals and their research institutes play in advancing the country's innovation agenda. "Members of ACAHO are engines of health innovation and play a crucial role in the knowledge economy and in the promotion of better health and health care. Budget 2010 includes a series of strategic investments that are in the right direction and support health research, innovation and commercialization", said Dr. Jack Kitts, Chair of ACAHO, and President and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital. (See News Release)

March 5, 2010