Request data from ICES (OHIP billing data)

WHY: To ensure you get team-level data from ICES to review and contribute to D2D 2.0, if you choose to do so. WHAT:

• Consult with physicians to ensure all are on board to submit team data to D2D. Consider showing the D2D video to inform this conversation.
• The deadline for requesting your OHIP billing data from ICES via AFHTO has passed. You can still access a portion of the indicators for D2D 2.0 from the HQO Primary Care Practice Report (in collaboration with team physicians) or contact Carol Mulder for other options.
• If you requested your OHIP billing data from ICES via AFHTO you will receive your data on May 19, 2015. They are being sent ONLY to the people indicated on the data request form, which for most teams is the ED and/or Medical Lead.  The data were received from ICES and parsed into team-specific files by Carol Mulder of AFHTO (as per request).  As per confidentiality agreement, identified-team-specific data was, is not, and will not be available to anyone else. Teams with more than one physician group will receive FHO and FHN specific rates once all team-level data are distributed, in respect of the D2D 2.0 data submission deadline.
• The ICES data file is laid out for use by someone comfortable with using Excel at a moderately technical level.  The layout is not conducive to presentation or collaborative decision-making with non-technical staff.  For example, the rates are presented with far more decimal places than is necessary, an artifact of the analysis process.  D2D 2.0 is intended to be the more user-friendly vehicle to view of the data.
• The indicators are sorted in the order they appear on the data submission form.  There is one indicator (Review of patients in registries: diabetes registry) which can be entered in the EMR section of the Expanded data submission, even though it comes from ICES rather than EMR data.  There are also a few additional indicators not needed for D2D 2.0 (eg adjusted and unadjusted rates for some indicators).  This for information only and not for D2D 2.0 submission.  See D2D Data Dictionary for more details on the data.  Please refresh cookies to get the most recent version if you have accessed it before.
• The ICES data are presented as rates (no numerator or denominator data).  They are also based on Rostered and Virtually rostered clients, and are therefore more appropriately considered as rates for all patients, not just rostered patients.
• Your team’s rates are presented in the column headed “V##” where ## is a meaningless number generated by ICES to ensure anonymity through the data processing and management process.
• Set data aside for submission to D2D 2.0 (see data submission guide).

WHEN: ASAP