Access to team-level ICES data: Instructions

AFHTO is VERY pleased to share the news that HQO is launching team-level access to ICES data for Executive Directors! The sign-up process is now open. START PREPARING FOR THIS NOW. Schedule discussions with physicians and Boards as needed to establish the necessary internal permissions to sign up for these reports. The sign-up process on the HQO portal will require the ED to indicate that they have informed the physicians in their team and that none object. This is the same level and type of permission that was involved in accessing ICES data for D2D 1.0 and 2.0. If you have any questions about the permission process, please contact Carol Mulder. We are happy to confirm that the portal will be used for teams to access their ICES data for D2D 3.0.  Five of the eight D2D 3.0 indicators will come from the Primary Care Practice report, whereas the other three D2D indicators will be placed in a side report. More details to follow. The sign-up process is now open. Sign up to receive your report by visiting HQO’s website.  The sign-up process to get your ICES data for D2D 3.0 closes October 30, 2015.  Those teams that sign up by October 30th will get their data by mid-December.   Sign up for the report by following these steps:

• Go to the  HQO Portal
• Click on the consent button and select the consent option for Executive Directors of Family Health Teams
• Complete the consent form by:

1. 1. Selecting your FHT form a dropdown menu
   2. De-select any PEM groups with physicians who have objected to the ED’s request for this data (like D2D, the consent requires EDs to inform all physicians and only request data for groups that did not object)
   3. Providing their names, email addresses (please use your formal organizational emails)
   4. Read the consent form
   5. Check the “I agree” box
   6. Click submit

• Verify their email addresses
• View a sample of what the HQO ED Primary Care Practice Report  will look like