The Cornerstones of Innovation Incubation
Strategic Objectives and Operating Principles
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation is an innovation incubator. We pride ourselves on finding new ways to promote evidence-informed decision-making in the Canadian healthcare system, and on being a national resource for change.
This is an ambitious goal; it requires a comprehensive strategy to stay on course.
The Foundation’s strategic plan, supported by our operating principles, forms the cornerstone of our activities. Defining strategic objectives allows us to focus our efforts. Putting the objectives into action and building on their successes helps propel us towards our overall goal: to improve the interaction, collaboration, and exchange of ideas between those who study how to improve health and those who make decisions.
Strategic Objectives
- To create high-quality new research that is useful for health service managers and policy makers, especially in the Foundation’s priority theme areas
- To increase the number and nature of applied health services and nursing researchers
- To get needed research into the hands of health system managers and policy makers in the right format, at the right time, through the right channels
- To help health system managers, policy makers and their organizations to routinely acquire, appraise, adapt and apply relevant research in their work
Operating Principles
- Innovation: Committed to creative ideas and solutions
- Collaboration: Dedicated to working with others to share knowledge, achieve goals, and create effective partnerships
- Transparency: Making decisions openly and accepting responsibility for their outcomes
- Flexibility: Adapting thinking and approaches to meet changing needs and expectations
Priority Research Themes
- Workforce and the work environment
- Quality and patient safety
- Values-based decision-making and public engagement
- Change management for improved practice and improved health