{"id":1914,"date":"2016-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-746\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:31:11","slug":"innovation-anthology-746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/01\/05\/innovation-anthology-746\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #746:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 746.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alberta has a very high rate of premature births.<\/p>\n<p>These babies need care for several days or weeks in neonatal intensive care units.<\/p>\n<p>But this intervention can leave parents on the outside looking in and unprepared to care for their babies once they come home.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Karen Benzies is a nursing researcher leading a new study across Alberta to help change that situation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions and Alberta Health Services.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DR  KAREN BENZIES: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;We know that in terms of how to support infants and  young children to develop that we need to focus on these early  relationships with parents, grandparents and other people. Parents  aren&#8217;t familiar with the technological environment in the nursery and  they feel sometimes like passive bystanders or visitors &nbsp; So it disrupts  their ideas, their expectations. But we always know we can do better. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Karen Benzies says the study will enroll 600 families of preterm infants over the next 12 to 18 months.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>Thanks today to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ALBERTA INNOVATES HEALTH SOLUTIONS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aihealthsolutions.ca\">Alberta Innovates Health Solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions) <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p>As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top  quality, internationally competitive health&nbsp;research and innovation  activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans.&nbsp;We provide  leadership for Alberta&rsquo;s health research and&nbsp;innovation enterprise by  directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting&nbsp;research and  innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Working&nbsp;with our many partners&nbsp; in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation  in&nbsp;care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and  clinicians influence&nbsp;research.<\/p>\n<h3>Our&nbsp;background<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Innovates<\/a> consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Innovates &ndash; Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency&nbsp;  of the Government of Alberta.&nbsp;We receive a yearly allocation from the  Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of  Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta&rsquo;s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out  Alberta&rsquo;s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our  considerable investments in research align with our priority&mdash;to improve  the health of Albertans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_3 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/health_solutions_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_text et_pb_module et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left  et_pb_text_2\">\n<p><strong>780-423-5727<br \/>Toll free: 1-877-423-5727<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/aihealthsolutions.ca\">aihealthsolutions.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1500,<br \/>10104 &ndash; 103 Avenue<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T5J 4A7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI Health_AHFMR Tagline_RGB.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-01-05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Integrated Care is a new  study led by University of Calgary nursing scientist Dr. Karen Benzies, which will look at how  to better integrate families into the hospital care of pre-term infants <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Alberta Innovates Health Solutions)<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,55,2,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-alberta-innovates-health-solutions","category-health-and-medicine","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}