The ISU Team humbly and gratefully acknowledge the ancestral, traditional and unceded Indigenous territories where we live, work and play. We invite our site visitors to reflect on their past, present and future participation on the Indigenous lands where they are situated.
The Innovation Support Unit (ISU) improves the health of British Columbians by supporting innovation and improvement in primary care. This is accomplished by collaborating with primary care programs and projects in our province and by connecting academic knowledge and our faculty with these projects.
We help apply evidence and develop new services and knowledge. Our methods actively improve the chances for success of these programs and projects by leveraging our unique expertise and position at UBC as an academic health systems partner.
What are we working on right now?
Mapping to Support Primary Care Transformation
The ISU offers a range of mapping supports that help clinical teams, Primary Care Networks, and communities work better together. This includes Team Mapping for clinical teams and PACC Mapping for communities and regions.
Team-Based Primary Care Evaluation
The evaluation aims to understand the impacts of transitioning to team-based primary care in British Columbia, with a focus on mature primary care teams, assessing changes across the dimensions of patient and provider experience, team capacity, attachment, access, and team function.
Capacity Estimator (CapEs)
The Capacity Estimator (CapEs) project was designed to see if we can estimate the primary care capacity of a team of health care providers and how closely that might meet the primary care needs of a population of people.