Research Themes
Health Everywhere is rethinking the patient journey—using digital innovation to move care beyond hospital walls and into people’s lives. Our research themes focus on connecting traditional care with virtual and remote options, improving data access, and strengthening the innovation ecosystem.
RESEARCH THEMES
Our mission is to improve patient-centered care, healthcare access, and timeliness for Alberta's diverse populations.
Enhancing Healthcare Equity in Alberta
A More Integrated Healthcare System
The Health Everywhere Hub remains committed to supporting its members throughout their innovation journeys, acting as a connector, enabler, and advocate to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
We envision a vibrant interconnected eHealth and mHealth ecosystem that leverages Alberta's strengths to drive economic and technological growth.
OUR RESEARCH
Together, our research supports a future where care is more connected, timely, and personalized—wherever and whenever it’s needed.
Alberta’s acute care system is well integrated, but community-based services remain fragmented. This theme enables seamless, inclusive, and scalable healthcare implementation in acute and community-based care settings. It focuses on digital innovations that can be scaled across the province, with an emphasis on building strong, sustained connections between clinicians and the communities they care for.
While digital technology has advanced rapidly, uptake into healthcare remains limited. This theme builds a foundation for testing and scaling virtual and mobile health innovations for virtual care delivery. By advancing virtual care tools and remote monitoring systems, this research theme aims to empower patients to take charge of their health, reduce the need to travel, and close the digital divide that limits access to care.
Health data can save lives—but only when it’s accessible. Right now, many providers don’t have access to the information they need. This theme focuses on building systems that allow data to flow securely and efficiently across the healthcare landscape. It’s about creating a more connected system—one where every piece of information contributes to better care.
Innovation can’t happen in isolation. This theme supports the growth of a vibrant digital health ecosystem by connecting innovators with the people, infrastructure, and resources they need. By mapping and strengthening the ecosystem, we can ensure that promising solutions have the support required to scale and succeed.
THEME 1
Bridging Community and Acute Care
Uniting researchers, decision-makers, and digital health innovators to ensure seamless, inclusive, and scalable healthcare implementation in acute and community-based care settings.
Led by: Matthew James and Neesh Pannu
A series of projects to better understand the factors, processes, and tools needed to support a vibrant ecosystem. This includes real-time, longitudinal research on if eHealth and mHealth technology development and innovation in Alberta is meeting current goals.
Evaluating the current eHealth and mHealth ecosystem
While innovators experience challenges navigating the support available to them, there are also unique services that innovators in eHealth and mHealth require that are not readily available. We will work to identify and fill critical gaps in the services available to innovators.
Bespoke ecosystem support services
Theme 4: Integrated Innovation Ecosystem Support
OUR RESEARCH
By addressing gaps and opportunities in the current ecosystem, our aim is to create a dynamic eHealth and mHealth ecosystem, by identifying resources, matching them with innovators, and improving overall integration.
Led by: Chad Saunders
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Land Acknowledgement
The University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta, both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The City of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).