Your Weekly News & Updates
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- Supporting older persons at home webinar March 25
- Reminder – Saegis Cybersecurity Clinic Update 2021, Mar. 4
- Reminder – AFHTO 2021 Conference: tell us what YOU want, what you really, really want
- Happy Social Work Week
- Learnings from primary care: vaccine roll-out slides and video
- Engaging and supporting caregivers slides and video
- Video profile of Akausivik Inuit FHT COVID rollout, OECD report and more
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- Supply Ontario appoints first CEO and needs primary care voices
- OpenNotes study seeking clinician participants- tomorrow deadline to respond
- Study invitation – characterizing the impact of primary care pharmacists’ consultation notes on health care decisions
- Healthy Professional Worker study
- RISE updates
- Upcoming events including COVID@Home Monitoring for Primary Care Providers, Practising Well CoP and more
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Supporting older persons at home webinar March 25
Supporting Older Persons at Home – Learning and Collaboration During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
COVID-19 highlighted numerous barriers and challenges to providing integrated care for older persons living in the community. Join Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario in a discussion on how to better support older persons in the community using lessons learned during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We will discuss needs in primary care – focusing on the role of interprofessional teams – and offer some resources and tools to better support team-based care for older persons. We will also discuss how specialized geriatric service programs in your area can provide support to primary care clinicians.
Reminder – Saegis Cybersecurity Clinic Update 2021, Mar. 4
Cohosted with Saegis, this webinar:
- Discusses the top 5 cybersecurity threats facing your clinic
- Lists the 10 questions to ask before engaging an IT consultant for your clinic, and questions to ask about your clinics network security
- Describes how and where to report clinic cyberattacks and privacy breaches.
Learn more here.
Reminder- AFHTO 2021 Conference: tell us what YOU want, what you really, really want
We’re going virtual again for this year’s conference and although we haven’t set a date yet, the earliest would be some time in October. Now that we’ve tried it once, we’d like to make the next better for you- more streamlined and focused on your needs.
We need your help. What do you want to hear more about and how would you like it?Tell us in this really quick survey. Deadline now March 9
Happy Social Work Week
The first week of March marks the beginning of Social Work Week in Ontario (#SWW2021). The current environment we find ourselves in is truly unlike any other. Please consider this year’s Social Work Week theme, “You are Not Alone” and explore the resources being shared as part of Social Work Week, at: www.oasw.org/socialworkweek.
Join us as we recognize our fellow social work colleagues by celebrating Social Work Week and their many contributions to teams and their patients.
Learnings from primary care: Vaccine roll-out across Ontario
Last Friday, February 26 we heard from teams who have stepped up to provide leadership for vaccine distribution in their communities. Ministry of Health officials, including Daniel Warshafsky (Senior Medical Consultant, Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health) was also there to provide an update on vaccine roll-out and to take questions. Slides and video are now on our site.
Engaging and supporting caregivers slides and video
On Feb. 25, the Ontario Caregiver Organization highlighted resources and opportunities for primary care teams to support and engage caregivers. Attendees learned about:
- The Ontario Caregiver Organization and their key programs, services, and resources
- Three key caregiver-related strategies that can positively impact health outcomes and the patient/family/caregiver experience
- Resources, programs, and actions that primary care teams can take to help advance these strategies
Slides and video are now available.
Video profile of Akausivik Inuit FHT COVID rollout, OECD report and more
Recent updates include:
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
Supply Ontario appoints first CEO and needs primary care voices
Supply Ontario is a single integrated supply chain across the public sector that will leverage the province’s purchasing power to provide greater value and consistent access to high-quality products and services. The agency has appointed Frank Rochon as their first CEO, effective March 1, 2021.
They need your input to help identify opportunities to improve the value they can deliver for your organization and patients, through better supply chain processes. Deadline now March 9.
OpenNotes study seeking clinician participants- tomorrow deadline to respond
Researchers at CAMH are looking to recruit mental health care providers across Ontario who document patient notes within an electronic health record, to participate in the “The OpeN Study”. This study is looking to understand and explore the needs of clinicians who are providing patients and their family members access to their clinical notes.
The study is recruiting participants to take part in a 60–90-minute interview to share their experiences. More information about the project can be found in this poster.
If you are interested in participating in this study, please email Strudwick.research@camh.ca by Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021.
Study invitation – characterizing the impact of primary care pharmacists’ consultation notes on health care decisions
Dr. Nicole Domanski is a clinical pharmacist at the UBC Pharmacists Clinic. Her research project is designed to characterize the impact of pharmacists’ consultation notes on healthcare decisions made by prescribers. As a physician or nurse practitioner working in FHTs, you have likely received a consultation note written by a primary care pharmacist.
She invites you to complete the following anonymous survey: to share your perspectives on pharmacist consultation notes. The survey consists of ranking and multiple-choice questions that should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Click here complete survey.
Healthy Professional Worker study
An interdisciplinary, multi-university research team led by Dr. Bourgeault at the University of Ottawa is exploring the mental health experiences of professional workers, and how these experiences are affected by their personal, work and family life. They are particularly interested in the role that gender has on these experiences. There will also be some questions about how COVID-19 has impacted these experiences.
If you are interested in taking part in this study, please follow this link to the online survey in English or in French. The survey will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. If you would prefer to participate in an interview, please contact the study project coordinator, Audrey Kruisselbrink, at HPW@uottawa.ca. The interview will take 40-60 minutes, for which there will be a $20 honorarium.
To learn more, you can see the flyer.
RISE updates
You can also sign up for their monthly newsletter here.
Personal Resilience for Hospice Palliative Care, Mar. 3, 2021
Learn how to enhance personal resilience during even the most challenging times.
Find out more here.
Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health, Mar. 4, 2021
The aim of this conference is to bridge this gap and provide information and resources to better equip Nurse Practitioners providing care to Gender Diverse individuals. The highlight is hearing the patient perspective. Find out more.
COVID@Home Monitoring for Primary Care Providers webinar, Mar. 4, 2021
Ontario Health webinar with speakers:
- Moderator: David Kaplan, Chief Clinical Quality, Clinical Institutes and Quality Programs, Ontario Health
- Dr. Dee Mangin and Dr. Cathy Risdon, McMaster University Department of Family Medicine
- Georgian Bay FHT – Gaynor Edwards, RN, Clinic Director
- Marathon FHT – Jodi Osborne, Physician Assistant
Register here.
Practising Well Community of Practice, Mar. 5, 2021
A space created by family physicians, for family physicians. Connect in real time with, and learn from, others who are working with patients to address their mental health, substance use disorders and chronic pain. The first session focuses on the challenges for family doctors in managing their own mental health/substance use during the pandemic. Join in on the discussion. Register here.
OHT evaluation webinars, Feb. 23 recording & Mar. 23 registration
The recording and slides for Health System Performance Network’s Population Health Management & Applying Population Segmentation from Feb. 23, and OHT Improvement Measures from Health Administrative Data: Where are OHTs Starting From? on Mar. 23 registration are available here.
BounceBack refresher webinar, Mar. 18 & 25, 2021
The BounceBack communications and marketing team invites you to a 30-minute refresher presentation on BounceBack, a free CBT skill-building program designed to help individuals 15+ manage low mood, mild to moderate anxiety or depression, stress or worry.
