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Christa Harstall Receives 2013 Award of Excellence in HTA

May 6, 2013

IHE's Director of Health Technology Assessment, Christa Harstall, is the winner of the 2013 Dr. Jill M. Sanders Award of Excellence in Health Technology Assessment (HTA).

New reporting standards promote consistency in health economic studies

April 9, 2013

Don Husereau, IHE Senior Associate, is lead author of a new set of standards for health economic evaluations, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS).

Study highlights potential overuse of MRI

March 26, 2013

Former IHE board member Dr. Tom Feasby is a co-author of a new Canadian study showing that more than half of MRI tests for lower-back problems may not be necessary.

Mental illness adversely affecting Canada’s economic potential – Edmonton Journal (Financial Post)

February 13, 2013

IHE was featured in a recent story in the Edmonton Journal, including comments from Phil Jacobs and Gus Thompson.

Hon. Ian Binnie to Chair the Jury for IHE's Consensus Development Conference on Legal Issues of FASD

January 30, 2013

The Honourable Ian Binnie is one of the most distinguished leaders in Canada's legal system. He served for nearly 14 years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, writing more than 170 opinions for the Court.

Poll co-sponsored by IHE covered in the Globe and Mail

August 29, 2012

IHE supported a poll by Ipsos Canada this spring, which found 18% of Canadians have no supplementary health benefits. That gap leads to real gaps in care: 36% of respondents said they had gone without needed care because of insufficient insurance coverage.

Innovation Forum VII Highlights now available online

July 25, 2012

Comprehensive content from the IHE's May 31, 2012, Innovation Forum, Social Determinants of Health is now available online. Click here to watch videos and see presentations from Sir Michael Marmot, Dr. Judith Bossé, Dr. Malcolm King, and more excellent speakers.

Harkness Fellowships - application deadline is November 19, 2012

July 3, 2012

The Commonwealth Fund, in collaboration with the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), invites applications for the Harkness/CHSRF Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice.

IHE workplace mental health project recognized in award nomination

June 14, 2012

IHE's workplace mental health project has helped earn an award nomination for a "creative sentence" handed down by the Provincial Court last year, which funded the project.

New national leadership role for IHE’s Director of Health Technology Assessment

June 13, 2012

Christa Harstall, Director of Health Technology Assessment at IHE, has been appointed Vice Chair of the Health Technology Analysis Exchange. The Exchange is a network of organizations in the field of health technology assessment, established in accordance with Canada's Health Technology Strategy (HTS 1.0). The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) serves as the secretariat for the Exchange. For more information, go to the CADTH website, http://www.cadth.ca/en/advisory-bodies/hta-exchange.