The QIDS Innovation Fund is intended to create and test ways to advance measurement and improvement capacity, and from this, enable all members to benefit from better tools, knowledge and capability. AFHTO members responded to the invitation to apply with 18 proposals that addressed these goals and then some! The AFHTO Board would like to thank and congratulate all those who took the time to make proposals. Three projects have been identified for immediate support. These fast-tracked projects were selected both for the strength of their proposals and their potential to benefit the QIDS strategy and AFHTO members as a whole. Projects that have been identified for immediate support are:
Minimum Data Set Lead: Mary Keith, Executive Director, Garden City Family Health Team
This is a project aimed at determining both the readiness and priorities of the various Family Health Teams in LHIN 4 regarding a minimum measurable set of data items needed to track specific chronic conditions. Data collection will occur through an online questionnaire. Results of the MDS project should be ready by mid April 2014 and will provide our group with metrics for care management that will assist in the planning and implementation of projects for quality improvement in patient care.
This project is being led by Mary Keith, with the assistance of Urslin Fevrier-Thomas and Karl Langton, both from the Hamilton FHT. For more information contact Mary at mkeith@gardencityfht.com, Urslin at urslin.fevrierthomas@hamiltonfht.ca or Karl at Karl.Langton@HamiltonFHT.ca.
Performance Management Framework and Dashboard- A data storybook and performance song sheet! Lead: Heba Sadek, Executive Director, Queen’s Square Family Health Team
In the absence of a structural tool that enables organizations to organize and understand their accountability requirements, the response to quality initiatives can be frustrating and ad hoc. Through this initiative Queen Square and its partners: Dufferin Area, Halton Hills and North Peel Family Health Teams will identify a common framework for data mapping that will show how different indicators are used to meet different accountability requirements. Clinicians’ input will also be sought in indicator development and standardization that meets their needs and aligns with the Primary Care Performance framework.
For more information contact Heba Sadek at HSadek@queensquarefht.ca
Patient Encounter and Reporting Tracking System: Lead: Michelle Karker, Executive Director, East Wellington Family Health Team
The East Wellington Family Health Team (EWFHT) has been a leader in the development of tools to extract data from its EMR, including data that is now required for Quality Improvement Plans and Ministry reporting. Advanced prototypes are already in existence. This project funding will enable EWFHT to further refine the programming and respond to the requests to share these tools across with its QIDS partners and potentially across the province.
For further information contact Michelle Karker at michelle.karker@ewfht.ca.
Congratulations go out to this first group of teams. Another group of proposals has been short-listed. Stay tuned! A special thanks goes to the review panel which was chaired by Ross Kirkconnell, Executive Director, Guelph Family Health Team and included Brenda Fraser, Central West LHIN (well known to many from her work at QIIP) and Darren Larsen of OntarioMD and the OMA. “It was really difficult to pick and choose. We had such a great mix of ideas and initiatives which speaks very highly of the sector’s readiness to take on these types of challenges. There simply wasn’t enough money to support all the great ideas.” Watch the AFHTO members only web-site for progress updates and knowledge sharing opportunities on these exciting projects.
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