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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.

Our Paths to Prosperity…A Policy Road Map for Canada's Health Research, Innovation and Commercialization Enterprise

This policy Brief is in support of the federal government's Science and Technology Strategy and ACAHO's three recently developed policy documents that focus on the role of Canada's Research Hospitals in relation to science and technology.

ACAHO commends the federal government for releasing its Science and Technology Strategy in May 2007. Overall, the document is thoughtful and cogent, and identifies a range of key policy issues and solutions, in addition to providing an overarching framework which incorporates thirty-six policy announcements.

ACAHO is very pleased that the federal government has identified the health and related life sciences and technologies sector as a key strategic area that warrants additional focus and investment. That said, the Association is of the view that we must build on the parameters that have been laid out by the federal government that promote maximum synergies, improve overall alignment and accountabilities and to the extent possible, defines anticipated outcomes and impacts

April 19, 2008

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