Turning Health Innovation into Sustainable System Impact in British Columbia

What we do

Our approach

Focus areas

Partner with us

WHAT WE DO

IHSTS is a province-wide health innovation catalyst that helps promising ideas become sustainable,

system-integrated solutions.

About Us

We work at the intersection of community need, health system priorities, and evidence-based practice to close the gap between pilot projects and lasting impact.

Our Approach

Our structured approach ensures innovations are

co-designed, evaluated, scaled, and positioned in the system where they matter most.

Our Initiatives

OUR APPROACH

Design

Defining the right problems to solve, with the right partners, from the start.

Develop

Testing, refining, and proving solutions in real-world conditions.

Deliver

Moving beyond ideas and pilots to lasting, system-embedded solutions.

Focus Areas

Chronic disease self- management

Community-based prevention

Digital and hybrid awareness models

Equity-focused rural health solutions

why partner with us

Move beyond innovative ideas

We specialize in translating promising ideas into programs that last - avoiding duplication, and fragmented implementation.

Demonstrate measurable impact

Rigorous evaluation and accountability are built into every phase, supporting transparency and accountability.

Build what communities will use

All initiatives are co-designed with patients, caregivers, frontline providers, and community partners.

Support with sustainable funding

We integrate public, private, and partnership-based funding models to support long-term viability and sustainability.

Align with the health system

Our work is explicitly aligned with Ministry priorities, health authority needs, and population health goals.

Scale up with with ease and confidence

Initiatives are designed from day one to be adaptable, transferable, and scalable across regions and populations.

Blog

Advance Care Planning Is Not About Death. It's About Not Wasting the Health System's Most Expensive Moments.

Avoidable hospital admissions at the end of life are among the costliest and most distressing failures in health care. Advance care planning reduces them – and BC has the infrastructure to scale it. Here's the case.

Multimorbidity Is Now the Norm, Not the Exception. BC's Health System Is Still Designed for One Disease at a Time.

More than a third of adults globally live with two or more chronic conditions. BC's care model was built around single diseases. Here's why that mismatch is costing the system, and what integrated care actually looks like.

BC Spent $35 Billion on Health Last Year. Prevention Got a Fraction of That.

BC's Ministry of Health budget hit $35 billion in 2025–26. Chronic disease drives the majority of that spending. Here's why the current funding logic is structurally backwards — and what would actually change the trajectory.

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