Contributing to D2D 2.0 Over half of AFHTO members have signed up for D2D 2.0! One hundred and five AFHTO member organizations (56%) have signed up to submit data for D2D 2.0! The most common reason teams give for being part of D2D 2.0 is to be able to compare with peers to better focus their local QI efforts. If you are still deciding whether to contribute data, check out this short video for a family doctor’s perspective about why D2D matters to her. Even if you missed the deadline for requesting ICES data you can still sign up to submit D2D data before the May 28, 2015 deadline. Check out the data dictionary or any of the other resources on the D2D webpage or contact Carol Mulder for more details. Detailed data submission “cheat sheet” coming soon Please check out the D2D webpage next week for a “cheat sheet” with step by step instructions for compiling and submitting data. Included will be directions on how to access EMR queries for the two EMR-based indicators (i.e. childhood immunization and EMR data quality). The QIDSS are finalizing those queries and will be ready to share them with all members within the next week. The deadline for all D2D 2.0 data submission is May 28, 2015. Timelines and distribution for D2D 2.0 The D2D 2.0 report will be available to AFHTO members only mid June 2015. Unlike QIP, Schedule A and other MOHLTC reports, D2D 2.0 is by and for AFHTO members only. A membership-wide aggregate summary of the report will be shared with external partners to demonstrate the maturity and leadership of AFHTO members in advancing QI and measurement –the team-level performance will only be available to teams themselves. Using data to improve data quality and care Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) moving forward on team-level cancer screening reports CCO is creating a team-level (vs individual doctor-level) screening activity report. The report is being designed in direct response to requests from and in collaboration with the QIDSS. It won’t be ready for D2D 2.0 – but it’s coming! Partnering with patients on measurement works! Early results from the patient-doctor relationship survey highlight the value of partnering with patients about measurement in primary care. At least three-quarters of the 200+ responses came via Patients Canada – a reach we would not have had without their active partnership. So far we’ve learned that over half of the respondents want a 50-50 decision making partnership with their doctors. That might not be true of all patients, as Patients Canada will be sharing at an upcoming conference on “Managing the Canadian Healthcare Strategy” – YET it is certainly an observation well worth considering! Analysis continues and will be shared in subsequent updates. Contact Puja Ahluwalia for more details. Other news REMINDER submit your abstracts for AFHTO 2015 – deadline May 11, 2015 Share your successes, processes and tools that strengthen Team-based Primary Care: The Foundation of a Sustainable Health System by submitting an abstract for the AFHTO 2015 Conference. Success stories about using data to improve care might include anything from “how we got a QI committee going and what people like about it” or “how we changed the conversation about quality improvement from whether to how to do it” to “how we dealt with the phone ringing off the hook when we sent out screening reminders” – any big or little thing that has made a difference to your team. Submissions are being collected for presentations and posters in 7 core streams. Deadline to submit is May 11 at 9:00 AM. QIDSS in the spotlight! Congratulations to Hope Latam (QIDSS) and Dr. Kevin Samson who are presenting from the East Wellington FHT at the upcoming TELUS Health Ontario EMR User Conference. Their presentation illustrates useful ways of improving access data to EMR data, including the use of the custom queries that were developed as part of an AFHTO Innovation Project and are now being deployed to FHT’s across the province. They will also showcase the new Postgres Reporting Appliance that they have been beta testing for TELUS. For more information please contact Marg Leyland. What do you think? We hope you find value in the D2D eBulletin and will continue to subscribe to this newsletter. Other members of your team can sign up by clicking here. Once they complete the sign-up form a confirmation e-mail will be sent within 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have any comments or questions about the eBulletin, please let us know by e-mail to improve@afhto.ca. What is D2D? Data to Decisions (D2D) is a member-wide summary of performance on indicators that are both possible for members to measure and that are meaningful to members. See the D2D page on AFHTO’s website for more information.
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