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About the CHE

What We Do

The CHE engages in projects and partnerships that promote practice-based evidence. A not-for-profit organization, we are funded by grants and service contracts. The CHE is involved in many projects simultaneously. This allows us to incorporate learnings and best practices in diverse areas while at the same time creating a learning synergy.

At the Centre for Health Evidence we use a wide range of Internet technologies including world wide web, database, communications, security, streaming video, remote desktop, and VIVIDESK^TM Internet servers. We have particular expertise using the VIVIDESK^TM Internet plug-in to organize multiple information resources and integrate knowledge with clinical applications.

We also link electronic databases, textbooks or journals, websites, CD-ROM products, or Windows applications in decision-support clusters. We focus on how these technologies can be deployed to support the change-management needs of groups that adopt new information practices. Our eclectic approach favours communication and discourse. Extensive libraries of tips, help systems, resource summaries, quizes, surveys, teaching scripts, reminders, and information games can be adapted for new projects and situations.

Why We Do It: CHE Objectives

The Centre for Health Evidence promotes evidence-based health care by presenting knowledge-based resources to health professionals in ways that facilitate their optimum use. The starting point is the information needs of decision-makers.

The CHE enables evidence-based practice through the lens of practice-based evidence. We do this with infostructure, instruction and investigation.

Infostructure objectives include:

• identifying, installing, packaging and disseminating health knowledge resources in ways that meet the unique decision-making needs of users,
• building and deploying health knowledge servers,
• linking knowledge servers to a variety of health care settings.

Instruction objectives include:

• helping users understand health evidence and the types of knowledge appropriate to different health care problems,
• facilitating on-line training about effective use of best internal and external evidence,
• designing just-in-time learning interventions, experiential teaching methods and continuing professional development-as-you-work.

Investigation objectives include:

• capturing subjective and objective data about how information resources are used,
• monitoring the effects of information behaviours on health decisions,
• facilitating research on the effects of alternative knowledge packaging and dissemination strategies.

CHE Mission

The mission of the Centre for Health Evidence is to help patients, practitioners, and policy makers:

Know what to do

because quality knowledge resources are assembled, integrated and packaged using simple, user-specific, Internet desktops

Do what is known

because on-line aids help users assess problems, ask questions, and acquire, appraise, and apply knowledge

Understand what is done

because information use is monitored and managed

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