Health Professionals Initiatives

Cancer

Alberta Colorectal Cancer Screening Program Project
In partnership with Alberta’s current colorectal cancer screening and treatment service providers, Alberta Health Services is developing a provincial strategy for colorectal cancer screening. The result of the project will be a business plan that will identify a provincial screening model, future demand assessment, evaluation plan, resource requirements and recommended implementation approach for the ACRCSP.

Provincial Family Physician Initiative
The Provincial Family Physician Initiative (PFPI) is a collaboration between Alberta Health Services – Cancer Care and Family Physicians of Alberta.

General

Activity Based Funding of Long-Term Care - User Summary
Activity based funding (ABF) is one of the tools used by Alberta Health Services (AHS) that seeks to optimize the allocation of available government funds to serve the population health needs within AHS’s mandate.

Activity Based Funding of Supportive Living - User Introduction
Within healthcare system management, organizational objectives can be achieved via the use of financial incentives.

Alberta Provincial Stroke Strategy
The Alberta Provincial Stroke Strategy (APSS) is a network of stroke services, knowledge dissemination, inter-regional clinical referrals and information sharing created to implement stroke services across Alberta.

Clinical Engagement Overview
Engagement is one of the core values of the strategic direction of Alberta Health Services (AHS).

Pharmaceutical automated identification initiative
HQCA endorses Joint Technical Statement on Canadian Pharmaceutical Automated Identification and Product Database Requirements.

Safety Engineered Devices
Safety Engineered Devices (SED) are required to be available and utilized within all healthcare settings in Alberta as legislated by the Government of Alberta, Occupational Health and Safety Code.