QI in Action eBulletin #94: Quality and Measurement New Beginnings

In this issue

• Moving Forward with AFHTO’s Quality Agenda
• Formation of the Quality Improvement in Primary Care Council
• Mental Health and Addictions Support
• Support for Teams
• Tools and Resources (including standardized EMR queries)
• Webinar videos and slides (including opioid stewardship)
• Workshops, events and presentations (including focus on follow up)
• Upcoming Webinars

Moving Forward with AFHTO’s Quality Agenda

2019 was a challenging and busy year with ongoing health system transformation changes along with changes to the QI program at AFHTO. Despite the sunset of D2D, AFHTO will continue its efforts to support teams in the field of quality and demonstrate the value of team-based primary care.

Quality improvement remains a key focus, and AFHTO’s Quality Steering Committee (QSC), in partnership with key stakeholders, is currently working on a priority list and areas of focus for this year. As we begin this new year, we wanted to provide you with a wrap-up of 2019 along with resources that will help projects this year.

If you would like to share a tool, resource or highlight a successful program or service in your team, we would love to hear from you! Please fill out this quick survey.

Formation of the Quality Improvement in Primary Care Council

In January of 2019, the Quality Improvement in Primary Care (QI in PC) Council was formed. The QI in PC council consists of 5 appointed QIDSS and QIDSS-like individuals with the goal to support the QIDSS Community of Practice (CoP) and strengthen collective QI capacity across the sector.

The priority areas for the group are primary care QI priorities, EMR queries and much more. eCE has partnered with AFHTO to help support this council in areas such as 7-day post-hospital discharge follow up.

The members of the council include:

• Cameron Berry, QIDSS, Kawartha North FHT
• Abigail Scott, Data and Quality Improvement Analyst, Queen’s FHT
• Brice Wong, QIDSS, Windsor FHT
• Mitch Chartier, QIDSS, Elliot Lake FHT
• David Raan, QIDSS, Humber River FHT

Contact the council by emailing: qiprimarycouncil@emaildodo.com.  

Mental Health and Addictions Support

AFHTO continues to advocate for more supports in primary care, especially as it pertains to ensuring more patients have access to team-based care, in particular in the areas of mental health and care coordination. This year, the Mental Health and Addictions webinar series in collaboration with CMHA & AMHO will continue and you can participate in the remaining 3 parts.

AFHTO, along with our mental health and addictions and primary care partners, is co-leading the development of a OHT Guidebook for Mental Health and Addictions and Primary Care Integration which will be helpful not only to those teams that are moving forward with OHTs in their community but will also be helpful with program planning at the local level.

We are also partnering with other organizations like OntarioMD, Ontario Health, CEP, eCE, OCFP, ECHO project and the Ontario Pain Management Resources (OPMR) group partners to help support a learning collaborative for the NorthWest LHIN addressing opioids prescribing.

The Algorithm Project team at AFHTO is in the final stage of completing a MEQ tool/query that will be compatible with OSCAR, Telus PS and Accuro. If you’re interested in piloting these tools, please reach out to us at improve@afhto.ca.

Support for Teams:

AFHTO has a library of resources that you may find helpful in developing your programs and services and with your Quality Improvement Plan. As always, if you have an innovation you want to share please let us know, by completing this quick survey.

Tools and Resources:

We have so many tools and resources available for members, but since they have been announced throughout the

years, we thought a refresher would be welcome, especially since we know you’re exposed to so much information every day.

Just a reminder that in our Dec. 17 communique we provided you a comprehensive list of Governance and Leadership tools, resources and training. .

Below are measurement and quality-related tools, resources, slides and videos. You can flag these emails or bookmark the related posts, so they’ll be easy to find for future reference.

• AFHTO member mental health and addiction initiatives
• AFHTO’s Partnered Supports for Chronic Pain and Addictions Resources
• Breast Cancer Screening
• Dementia
• Deprescribing initiatives in Primary Care
• How can teams help meet the e-service needs of patients?
• More tools for continuous improvement
• Palliative Care Matters
• Primary Care Virtual Community High Impact Action Items
•  QIDS-ESSENTIAL: The Making & Meaning Of The Quality Improvement Decision Support Program
• QIP change ideas for 2020/2021
• Standardized EMR Queries
  • EMR Tools and Queries for Phone Encounters for 7 Day Follow Up
  • Childhood Immunization Queries
  • Patients Served Queries
  • Smoking Status Complete Queries

Webinars:

• A Successful Nurse-Led Program in Primary Care for Patients with Chronic Pain Webinar
• Bariatric Surgery (3 webinars)- Introduction, Early/Common Post-Op Complications, and Advanced Bariatric Nutrition
• Better outcomes, lower costs: how do some teams do it?
• Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Depression
• Increasing Access to Patients Through Virtual Care Visits
• Making the case for nutrition screening in team-based primary care to meet the needs of your frail clients
• Mental Health and Addiction QI Collaborative Webinar Series – Part 1
• Microcytic Anemia in Primary Care Webinar
• The Digital Health Toolbox: Enabling High-Performance Teams In The Delivery Of Integrated, Patient-Centred Care Webinar
• Introducing the Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) Tool
• Team Based Approaches to Chronic Pain Management: Opioid Stewardship
• Transforming Primary Care for Older Canadians Living with Frailty Webinar

Workshops, Events and Presentations

• Building Together: How To Become A High Performing Team – Workshop
• Focus on Follow-Up Workshop in the North East
• Managing Medication as a Team
• Telling our Story: External Presentations on Measurement and Quality Improvement

Upcoming Webinars:

• Mental Health and Addiction QI Collaborative Webinar Series – Part 2 – January 14, 2020
• Vaping: New Challenges for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention –Hosted by Heart & Stroke Foundation – January 23rd, 2020
• Opioids Webinar Series for the Northwest LHIN – in collaboration with Ontario Health, Northwest LHIN, CEP, OCFP, eCE and OntarioMD (sign up information coming soon)
• Improving cancer screening rates in your practice and reducing related disparities – in collaboration with Cancer Care Ontario (sign up information coming soon)
• Shortening the Diagnostic Odyssey: Rare Disease in Primary Care – by Sanofi Genzyme Rare Disease (sign up information coming soon)

If you have a suggestion for a webinar/QI in Action eBulletin topic or if you would highlight a tool, resource, successful program and/or innovation please let us know by filling out this quick survey.

In Case You Missed It: Check out eBulletin #93 or other back issues here!
Questions? Comments? Contact us at improve@afhto.ca.