Data to Decisions: Advancing Primary Care

Data to Decisions: Advancing Primary Care is a membership-wide report on performance in primary care. It helps local teams see where they stack up against their peers on a small number of measures. QIDS Specialist Host & Partnership Forum: The September 1^st, 2015 forum was attended by over 90 QIDS specialists and QIDS specialist host and partner Executive Directors.  The purpose was to celebrate our collective progress via analysis of D2D 1.0 vs. 2.0 data and preparing teams to move forward faster further. For more information check out the presentation slides or watch a recording of the webinar. Why participate in D2D? Click here for a video to help EDs, physicians, Boards and QIDSS start discussing D2D and how your team can participate. 

Past Reports

• D2D 2.0 Interactive Report – released June 2015
• D2D 1.0 Interactive Report – released October 2014

The submission/historical data forms for D2D 1.0 and D2D 2.0 are temporarily unavailable while we prepare for the launch of D2D 3.0 on December 3, 2015.

The D2D journey continues – getting started on the next iteration of D2D

Measures will continue to be refined to become more and more meaningful to providers and their patients, and acted upon to improve care. Calling all clinicians! Make sure D2D makes good clinical sense – join the conversations by July 24, 2015 to come up with better indicators for Emergency visits, 7-day follow up and other clinical measures.

• Learn more about the clinical consultation process.

Stay up to date on D2D – The eBulletin is released bi-weekly to help members keep track of upcoming D2D deadlines and share updates and information about manageable meaningful measurement.

Resources and Links

• Quality roll-up indicator FAQ

• How are teams using data to improve? Consider sharing YOUR story as well!

• Data Dictionary and instructions for submitting data to D2D: Definitions for indicators and additional information to help collect data.
• Cleaning Data – Hire a student toolkit: Leverage student placement programs to start cleaning EMR data and gain access to incentive programs for physicians for better coded data.
• Patient Contact System pilot project: The goal of this project is to make it easier for teams to administer ongoing, consistent, patient experience surveys and otherwise engage patients in their care in meaningful ways.

For more information about D2D contact Carol Mulder, QIDS Provincial Lead, carol.mulder@afhto.ca.