Highlights:
- Members named to the Quality Improvement Decision Support Steering Committee (QSC)
- Arrival of the first QIDS Specialists and the Provincial QIDS Team
- Steps underway to improve information and knowledge exchange with EMR Vendors, including EMR user sessions at the AFHTO 2013 Conference
- Community of Practice for Decision Support Team Members is being established
- ACTION REQUESTED: please complete a brief QIDS Implementation Status Survey to help shape priorities and inform the work of QSC and the Provincial QIDS Team. Please complete a brief QIDS Implementation Survey
The survey will be open until 12 noon on October 17th, 2013. QSC Named: Your Quality Improvement Decision Support Steering Committee (QSC) has been named. It reflects widespread enthusiasm and support for the goals of the QIDS program. According to QSC Chair Ross Kirkconnell, “this is a great opportunity to provide more effective support to the great work FHTs are doing in Quality Improvement, and build greater capacity to tell our story to the rest of the system. I am really looking forward to working with this very talented and committed group.” Membership Chair: Ross Kirkconnell, Executive Director, Guelph FHT; AFHTO Board Members:
- Katherine Campbell, Director, Service Quality Integration, Dryden Regional Health Ctr.
- Gail Czukar, Executive Director, Humber River FHT
- Sanjeev Goel, Lead Physician, Wise Elephant FHT
- Karen Hall-Barber, Family Physician and Assistant Professor Dept. of Family Medicine, Queen’s
- Monique Hancock, Executive Director STAR FHT
- Sherry Lynn Harrington, Director, Program Innovation &Evaluation, Peterborough FHT
- Mary Keith, Executive Director, Garden City FHT
- Karl Langton, Health Informatics Coordinator Hamilton FHT; Peer Leader OntarioMD
- Kevin Samson, Physician, East Wellington FHT, Co-Lead AFHTO PSS User Group
Advisors:
- Rick Glazier, Family and Community Medicine, St. Michaels; Sr. Scientist ICES, AFHTO Board
- Michelle Griever, North York Family Health Team
Ex Officio:
- Elizabeth Keller, Director Product Management, OntarioMD
- Ben King, Senior Program Consultant, eHealth Liaison Branch, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- eHealth Ontario (confirmed, rep. TBD)
Staff: Tim Burns, Provincial Lead QIDS, AFHTO QIDS Specialists are coming on board: Some QIDS Specialists are now in place. Say hello to Melanie Young (Kenora), Meghan Peters (Sudbury- Val Caron), and Thiv Paramsothy (East GTA). Several more are expected to start within the next few weeks. Please be sure to put newly appointed QIDS Specialists in touch with Tim Burns (tim.burns@afhto.ca) as they join up. Employers are also encouraged to send QIDS Specialists to the AFHTO Conference for networking opportunities and a great deal of content that should be really interesting for them and highly relevant to their roles. Provincial QIDS Team Members: AFHTO is also very pleased to welcome Carol Mulder and Jenya Doudareva to the provincial team: Carol Mulder: Quality Improvement Decision Support Specialists Practice Lead Carol comes very well prepared to this role as she has extensive background in teaching and decision support capacity building. In addition to being a trained veterinarian, Carol holds an MSc in Epidemiology and is pursuing a doctorate in Quality improvement Knowledge, Beliefs and Behaviour. She has held senior roles in information management and was most recently the co-lead for the South West Regional Integrated Decision Support strategy. Carol will be starting on October 21, 2013. Jenya Doudareva: EMR/Technical Lead for QIDS Jenya has an M.A.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering at the University of Toronto. Jenya has worked on projects including multi-site process improvement in cancer screening and decision support models for orthopedic surgery scheduling. Jenya will be starting on October 16, 2013. EMR Vendor relationships: The QIDS Program will be working with the EMR vendor community to improve information and knowledge exchange and increase value for members. This approach builds on progress made by the Telus/PSS User Group (and thanks to Kevin Sampson, Fok-Jee Leung, Clarys Tirel and the rest of the PSS User Group). Responsibility for vendor relationship strategies is now transferring to the QIDS Program where it will be expanded under the guidance of the QSC. As a first step, EMR Vendor reps and Information and Knowledge Exchange Sessions have been set up for 8:00 to 8:45am on October 22 at the AFHTO conference for Bell, Nightingale, OSCAR, QHR Technologies and Telus. A vendor rep was not available from P&P Data Systems, however there will be an opportunity for users of their EMR to share information. In all, over 320 individuals have registered for these sessions. Thanks to registrants for over40 specific suggestions for topics to be addressed by vendors. These will be shared with vendors this week. Please contact Tim (tim.burns@afhto.ca) if you have any questions or need information regarding EMR vendor sessions. Community of Practice for Decision Support Team Members: Family Health Teams already have a lot of capacity in analytics and decision support and have a great deal to be proud of in what has already been accomplished. One of Carol Mulder’s primary roles will be to develop a Community of Practice for FHT professionals primarily focused (or interested in) Quality Improvement, Data Management and Analysis or Decision Support. This Community of Practice will help to will create relevant learning and knowledge sharing opportunities for many FHT team members in addition to the QIDS Specialists themselves. To assist us understanding how to identify and plan for this community we request that you take a moment to complete the survey. QIDS Implementation Survey: ACTION REQUESTED Please take a moment to complete the attached survey. It collects information which is of interest to all FHTs and is especially timely as the QSC will be starting its work this month. The information will help to provide QSC with a good snapshot of the program’s overall status and help the provincial team to launch a community of practice that will be open to all FHTs. Please complete a brief QIDS Implementation Survey
The survey will be open until 12 noon on October 17th, 2013.
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