Who We Are
Health Cities is Alberta’s trusted partner in creating and scaling care models that work here and beyond our borders.
We transform healthcare challenges into working solutions by convening invested parties who rarely sit at the same table—clinicians, people with lived experience, administrators, and community partners—and navigating complex healthcare systems to co-develop implementation-ready care models.
Our approach is different. We start with the care model, not the technology. We work at ground level with those who understand the real barriers: clinicians navigating policy gaps, patients facing access challenges, administrators managing funding structures that don’t align. Then we layer in the right innovations to make care faster, more accessible, and more effective.
From diabetes management to alternate levels of care, we’re model co-developers who see projects through from design to proven adoption. We drive projects from inception to implementation, alongside our partners. And we build models that other provinces and countries want to scale. Because healthcare innovation succeeds when those who live the challenges help design the solutions.
Our Mission
We improve the health of Canadians by co-developing, validating, and scaling proven care models that deliver real-world results.
Alternate Level of Care Initiative
The Alternate Level of Care (ALC) Initiative, led by Health Cities, addresses one of Alberta’s most pressing health system challenges: individuals who no longer need hospital-level care but remain in hospital beds due to a lack of suitable alternatives.
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Future facing
Future facing | Our Goals
to establish the health sector as a key contributor to job growth and our economy
The talent and innovators here in Canada are leading the way in driving the health sector as a key contributor to our GDP.
We have a wealth of data in Canada and Alberta, due to being under a single health authority composed of 4.5 million residents (the largest health jurisdiction in Canada). The power of data-driven decision-making is both possible and key to addressing our health challenges. Health Cities project on Synthetic Data (link to project page) aims to create an environment where community, academic, and industry can work collaboratively with the governments and the health system to co-develop novel solutions in Alberta that can be scaled nationally and internationally.
With strengths in key technology platforms like AI/ML and Immersive Technologies, we can lead growth in our emerging sectors. These platforms will continue to lead the transformation of health.
to scale companies, provide equitable access to care, and modernize the health sector
To market globally, Canadian companies must scale their solutions in live settings. It is critical for Canadian companies to prove their technology in a healthcare setting and to be able to generate data related to efficacy and cost-savings.
Key opportunities in technology exist in areas such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, and immersive technologies (augmented and virtual reality). Multiple health settings offer unique pathways to market, including Primary Care, Long Term Care, Home Care, First Nations Care and Acute Care.
By developing and establishing commercialization pathways in these settings, multiple regional SMEs will have multiple pathways to enter healthcare markets, while also supporting equitable access and positively impacting patients.
and their role in innovation
that accelerates development and growth.