Contributing to D2D 2.0 

Indicator selection: The indicators for D2D 2.0 have been approved by the AFHTO Board. Please review to decide which indicators your team could and would submit to the report. You may want schedule meetings with your clinical lead(s) and/or Board of Directors to review the data and approve it for submission. The deadlines for data submission are projected for early April – dates will be confirmed shortly. Data submission tool: For D2D 2.0 teams will enter their data directly into a tool that is now being developed (instead of sending in an excel file). Teams participating in D2D 2.0 will be asked to designate one individual from their team with authority to submit data. Several QIDSS will be testing the tool for usability starting on March 19th. Contact Puja Ahluwalia or Greg Mitchell for more information.

Using D2D 1.0 to improve data quality and care

Hire a student to improve data quality in your EMR: The toolkit to assist members in hiring a student has been posted on the members-only website. The toolkit was developed with input from members that have successfully engaged students to improve data quality in their EMRs. If you are considering getting a student, particularly if it is for this summer, it is important to start the process now. See the toolkit for next steps. Build a COPD registry in Telus PSS and Accuro EMRs: A query will soon be available from the QIDSS to generate a list of COPD patients. The QIDSS have developed the query in collaboration with CPCSSN, EMRALD and the ALIVE project. It is not perfect – about 15% of the patients found might not actually have COPD – but this may be an easier way to start finding these patients than starting from scratch. The query and instructions will be released in the next eBulletin. In the meantime, contact Greg Mitchell for more information. Pilot project for a patient contact system (for patient experience surveys etc): Proposals are under review for a vendor to develop and implement a service to automate the process of contacting patients.We will be looking for 10 teams to pilot the service by March 31, 2015. If your team is interested in participating, please contact  Marg Leyland. A more detailed call for volunteers will be issued shortly. In the meantime, please see the Request For Quotes for more details. QIDSS attended learning sessions to improve quality of clinical data in EMRs: Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) hosted the third of five regional sessions this week with QIDSS and the CCO Regional Primary Care Leads in Sudbury. Among topics discussed were: strategies to make it easier for QIDSS to support physicians in accessing their SARs; the extent of similarity between EMR and SAR cancer screening rates; and information and resources available to QIDSS and AFHTO members from CCO’s Primary Care Leads. There are upcoming sessions scheduled for QIDSS in Toronto and Thunder Bay.

Other news about manageable meaningful measurement

Thanks for completing the EMR migration survey: Responses were received from about one quarter of AFHTO members and are now being compiled. Further details will be available over the next month. In the meantime, contact Marg Leyland for more information.

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 web site for more information.