Accessing physician-specific data

Over 100 teams contributed to D2D 2.0 in June 2015 and it looks like people are using it! Readership stats show that there is an increase in regular viewing of the D2D 2.0 webpage over that of D2D 1.0. One thing we know is that people end up wanting to drill down into their data – often with physician-specific data.

Here are 3 ways your team can access physician-specific data:

1. Sign up physicians for access to their breast, cervical, and colorectal screening rates through the CCO Screening Activity Report (SAR) portal.
2. Sign up physicians for their own Primary Care Practice Report from the HQO portal to compare their data to regional and provincial sources (this report contains most of the D2D indicators that came from ICES data).
3. Enrol your team in EMRALD  or CPCSSN for better access to EMR data to improve performance.
   1. EMRALD is a database, housed at ICES, derived from electronic medical records (EMRs) maintained by family physicians. Data collection occurs twice a year and does not interfere with day-to-day clinic operations. Details on how to participate are on the ICES website.
   2. CPCSSN is the first pan-Canadian multi-disease public and population health surveillance system. CPCSSN networks across the country collect health data from EMRs every three months, which allows for health patterns to be detected in a timely way. To participate in CPCSSN contact your regional network.

ContactCarol Mulder for more information.