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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.

A View From The Top...A Survey of ACAHO Presidents and Chief Executive Officers

Over the past five years, the Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO) has moved a significant way in terms of providing a national voice for Teaching Hospitals, Regional Health Authorities and their Research Institutes that are responsible for the academic mission (i.e., service provision, education & training, and research & innovation). In support of this mandate, the Association has developed and released a number of policy-related documents that focus on the strategic activities of members and the role of the federal government.

To supplement the views as well as recommendations that have been offered to the federal government by the Association, it was thought timely to ask its members (i.e., its Presidents and CEOs) to comment on a range of health system policy issues at one moment in time.

July 1, 2006

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