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  • Please help AFHTO and CCO help you in palliative care delivery by completing survey by Sept.12

    Message to MD/NP Leads and EDs: Palliative care is receiving a great deal attention at the moment. To better serve and represent member needs and interests, AFHTO would like to learn more about the current services your FHT/NPLC provides, and the barriers and facilitators to providing palliative care in the community. Cancer Care Ontario is currently developing education tools and resources to support primary care providers in delivering palliative care. To ensure that these are appropriately tailored to meet your needs, CCO has developed a short survey to collect this important information. If you are the MD/NP or administrative lead for your FHT or NPLC, we ask that you kindly complete the survey using this link: http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/cancercare-1/cpac-provider-assessment-meso-survey/ Your participation is VERY important. It should only take about 10 minutes to complete and you will be provided with the survey results once they are compiled. Please respond by Sept. 12. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Angie Heydon, ED, AFHTO Kathi Carroll, Primary Care, CCO Sara Urowitz, Palliative Care, CCO

  • Advancing primary care measurement with D2D 1.0 and the Starfield Model

    Two big steps in our progress to measure, improve and demonstrate the value of interprofessional primary care:

    • Close to 50 FHTs submitted their data for the Data to Decisions (D2D) 1.0 report.  Whether or not your FHT/NPLC contributed data, the summary results can help you and your team. AFHTO members can access D2D 1.0 on the Members Only website.
    • D2D 1.0 is a starting point – the Starfield Model is the eventual destination. AFHTO’s approach to primary care measurement focuses on the relationship with our patients and our ability to deliver the care patients value. Its objective is to optimize quality, access and total health system cost of care for patients, using indicators from Health Quality Ontario’s Primary Care Performance Measurement Framework. The model and a case study of its implementation was just published in the Healthcare Management Forum – The Starfield model: Measuring comprehensive primary care for system benefit.

    Getting the most value from D2D 1.0 To make sure D2D 1.0 is as useful as possible for you, AFHTO members will be asked to complete a survey that will guide the design of supporting materials. We expect that it will be the conversations, not the data themselves, that are the most important value of D2D 1.0.  The conversations that are already starting are making it easier for teams to get at the data they need for meaningful measurement, measurement that reflects the work and impact of all members of the interprofessional primary care team. Learn more at the AFHTO Conference Consider registering for:

    • Using D2D 1.0: physician-specific workshop on Oct 15, 2014, 10 AM – 12 noon
    • Performance measurement: why bother? Oct 16, 2014 from 9:30am to 10:15am Concurrent Session Presentation on AFHTO’s approach to performance measurement, mapping out the journey from D2D 1.0 to the eventual destination of the Starfield model.

    Data to Decisions (D2D) 1.0 D2D 1.0 is a summary of primary care data that are currently available, comparable and mean the most to AFHTO members in their efforts to advance quality of care for their patients.  Please see brief slide deck for more information. Please contact Carol Mulder with any questions or suggestions for D2D 1.0.

  • Access to hospital discharge data

    Participation of health team in a service that provides automated near-real-time updating of the health team’s EMR with information about hospital discharges of the team’s patients via one of the following services: Hospital Report Manager (HRM), Physician Office Integration (POI), Timely Discharge Information System (TDIS) or Southwest Physician Office Interface to Regional EMR (SPIRE)

  • Size of team

    Self-described size of health team based on number of patients served (large vs small)

  • Telephone access to health team

    Patient Experience Survey Question:

    How do you rate the ease of [one of the following versions of the question]

    • Access OR
    • reaching the office OR
    • getting through to the office OR
    • get through to someone at the clinic

    by phone?

  • on Coumadin with INR 2

  • Follow up by primary care provider via phone or visit within 7 days of discharge from hospital

  • patients with same

  • Primary care follow up within 7 days of discharge

  • Patient experience