The QIDS Innovation Fund AFHTO’s members are committed to measuring and improving the quality of the comprehensive primary care they deliver to patients. In 2014, AFHTO’s Quality Improvement Decision Support (QIDS) program funded six exciting projects that were designed to support innovations that could be spread across the membership to improve capacity for measurement and improvement. Findings from these projects and one additional unfunded innovative project were presented at the AFHTO Innovations Knowledge Sharing Symposium in May 2014 and are summarized together in this report (click here for the full pdf). The seven individual projects accessible below are a testament to the value of getting started with something that matters, no matter how small or local it may seem. In every case, the teams set out to solve a problem related to measuring and improving the quality of care in their organizations. Driven by their own initiative and curiosity, the teams developed concrete resources, deepened their knowledge, discovered unexpected by-products and learned valuable lessons. This package summarizes what they learned so it can be shared with the AFHTO community. We hope their experiences will inspire you to take what they have learned and make it work for you. Check out the innovation projects
Share your story If you use any of the resources or information from this project (or even if you thought about it and then didn’t!) please share your story with us. And please don’t wait until you are “done”! The real value of your work is your ability to get started in order to build momentum for quality improvement. As Newton’s law says, “objects in motion tend to remain in motion”! Please share your stories to keep the momentum up for all of us! To share your story, click on this short survey. Contact us If you have any questions or comments about the projects, please feel free to contact the AFHTO Quality Improvement Decision Support program at improve@afhto.ca.
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