Health innovation in Canada: Optimizing health and Canada’s prosperity January 2020 Public Report The cost of Canada’s health care system continues to increase, and may not be sustainable. [...] Collectively, AFMC’s doctors and scientists not only provide care to patients and teach the next generation of doctors and scientists but also do research to improve healthcare. [...] These steps include pre-human research to see if an innovation is likely to work and be safe to use in humans, “first in man” studies to obtain early results, head to head randomised clinical trials compared to usual care to obtain more definitive results and then pooling of randomised trial results to get definitive answers. [...] 7) Creating a new CIHR Health Innovation Fund to do research that pools the results of clinical trials to know for sure if an innovation/intervention should be supported, do research to determine if and how to implement innovations and do economic evaluations to ensure the results that interventions deliver are worth the taxpayer investment. [...] 8) Launching the “Health Innovations Agency of Canada” to take worthy innovations efficiently through the red tape and barriers of approvals, purchasing and use in our health care systems to make sure they are quickly delivered and accessible to all Canadians.
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