• Partners
  • Alberta Health and Wellness
  • Alberta Health Services
  • Centre for Health Evidence (CHE)
  • Post Secondary Institutions
  • Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes
• Program Advisory Ctte.

Centre for Health Evidence (CHE)

The Centre for Health Evidence (CHE) at the University of Alberta promotes evidence-informed health service delivery by facilitating practice-based evidence and providing knowledge resources to health professionals.

SEARCH Canada’s strategic partnership with the Centre for Health Evidence (CHE), University of Alberta, evolved from SEARCH’s use, since 1996, of state-of-the-art e-learning methods and technologies. 

At its start, SEARCH Canada was looking for knowledge management expertise and technologies to support its educational and knowledge transfer mandate. CHE had the means to provide it, and an interest in exploring novel applications of its desktop technology. SEARCH Canada’s evolving Classic program – a two-year cycle of professional development and training in applied research and its use in decision-making – and its participants provided just such an application.

Today, the SEARCH ‘desktop’ is an integrated internet environment that provides a sophisticated online, common ‘workspace’. This state-of-the-art electronic knowledge and communication tool provides resources for curriculum delivery, project collaboration and information access. SEARCH Canada funds development and upkeep of what has become core infrastructure to both its Classic and Custom programs; CHE provides overall knowledge, as well as management services and curriculum delivery.  

• Centre for Health Evidence (CHE)