Strategy and Innovation

Purpose: 

Shaping the future of healthcare in the Saskatchewan Health Authority. 

1. Strategic Stewardship & Alignment

  • Collaborate to champion and integrate system-wide strategic priorities, creating a clear connection from vision to action.
  • Respond to system needs and steward strategic priorities.
  • Facilitate consistent, province wide policy development.
  • Embed enterprise risk management practices to support strategic objectives.
  • Translate evidence and best practice into actionable system-level alignment and standardization.

2. Innovation & System Design

  • Foster a culture of innovation that connects ideas with operational realities.
  • Co-design service planning models that are scalable and replicable.
  • Build the “machinery” for seamless pathway and network development across the health system.

3. Collaboration & Partnership

  • Create meaningful spaces for purposeful engagement and collective action.
  • Facilitate partnerships to leverage shared expertise, resources, and change capacity.
  • Provide wrap-around support and coaching to enable collaborative problem-solving, planning, and implementation.

4. Capacity Building & Knowledge Enablement

  • Strengthen data literacy to foster shared purpose, strategic sense-making, and storytelling through data.
  • Align data to create clarity and insight in complex environments.
  • Grow organizational capacity for transformation through structures, processes, resources, and change leadership.

We are bringing these core functions to life through:

Planning, Performance Measurement, Policy Development, Enterprise Risk Management, Large Scale Change, Provincial Clinical Networks, Service Planning, Pathway Development, SHA Innovates, Project Stewardship

Information about our team and the services you will find on this site include:

Clinical Pathways
Standardized, evidence-based approaches that guide coordinated, high-quality care across the patient journey.
Corporate & Clinical Policy
Guides SHA team members to develop policies that foster accountability, safety, and consistency.
Enterprise Risk Management
Helping identify, assess, and manage risks across the organization to support informed decision-making and achieve strategic goals.
Innovation Awards
Celebrating projects that advance better care, collaboration, and system learning across Saskatchewan.
Large Scale Change
Mobilizes partners, facilitate process and creates momentum for system transformation.
Provincial Clinical Networks
Connecting clinicians, leaders, and patients to co-design provincial standards and transform models of care.
Performance Measurement
Using measurement for decision making and to evaluate impact.
SHA Innovates
Supporting teams to design, test, and scale innovative solutions that improve health system performance.
Strategic Planning
Collaborating with SHA teams to enable system-wide alignment in the development, integration and implementation of strategic and operational plans.
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