About the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute

Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute (ABJHI) is a leader in transforming bone and joint health care to produce better patient outcomes and more efficient service delivery.
A not-for-profit organization founded in 2004, ABJHI’s work is supported by partnerships with:

  • Alberta Health Services
  • medical and health practitioners
  • researchers
  • universities
  • educators
  • government
  • private donors

Vision

Better outcomes for bone and joint patients through integrated care that is evidence-based and sustainable.

Goal

A sustainable system of patient-centered bone and joint health care delivery that is based on evidence and efficiently provides the best quality of health care to all Albertans.

Products and Services

Design and update integrated care paths

Review and synthesize evidence

Model need and demand

Develop measurement frameworks for success

Broker change and improvement

Support and manage research studies

World’s Attention Turning to Bone and Joint Health Care

Demographic changes are turning the world's attention to bone and joint health care as one of the most pressing medical challenges of the century. Populations are aging and growing. People in developed nations are living longer and rates of obesity are rising. These developments are increasing demand for bone and joint health care at a time when the capacity to pay is diminishing. Governments, health care agencies and facilities are under pressure to quickly improve the quality and availability of bone and joint health care and to deliver care more efficiently.

ABJHI is responding to these challenges with innovative models of health care that are evidence-based and sustainable. We also provide management and support services to help implement our models of care. We build tailored measurement frameworks for measuring how the models are performing so that service delivery and efficiency can be continuously improved.

Bone and joint health care is ABJHI's singular area of focus. We are highly knowledgeable about every aspect of it -- services, practices, protocols, devices, drugs, medical facilities. We know the terms and speak the vocabulary used by orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists and other health care professionals who deliver and manager bone and joint care.

One of ABJHI's greatest strengths is our ability to bring together the clinicians, managers, policymakers and researchers whose collaboration is necessary to bring about improvement and efficiency in care. We're able to do this because our team includes clinicians, researchers and former health care managers. Their background means they are acutely aware of the needs and concerns related to bone and joint health care.