In 2008, the Queen’s Family Health Team began to wonder just how accurate its medication lists were in our EMR. A medical student audit conducted that summer found a lot of room for improvement, particularly for patients on multiple medications or those seeing multiple providers. Since then, Queen’s FHT has developed numerous processes and policies focused on medication safety and, specifically, on how to maintain accurate medication lists. The project has grown to include reviewing and tracking of prescription refill processes and clarifications from pharmacies, community pharmacy outreach, resident education, ordering and stocking of medications, and medication reconciliation at the patient-level. Their approach has been comprehensive and multi-faceted – it has relied on raising awareness, focused teaching sessions with providers, patient education, data collection, and engagement of all staff, from clerical to pharmacy to physician. Follow-up audits in January and August 2010 found great improvements in the accuracy of medication lists. This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference highlights their journey to date and “lessons learned” from their approach to medication safety. PRESENTER: Karen Hall Barber ORGANIZATION: Queen’s Family Health Team Click here to view.
Tag: Past Conference Materials
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Looking to the Future: Collaboration & Engagement Through Social Media
In early 2010 500,000 Facebook users rallied together to get Betty White to host the season finally of Saturday Night Live, which was SNL’s highest rated episode in 2 years. In 2007 Justin Bieber, teen pop sensation from Stratford Ontario, was discovered after his mom posted videos of him singing on YouTube. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites, attracting nearly 78 million visitors monthly. The content is created and maintained by over 90,000 contributors. And they do it all for free. These three examples illustrate how social media is changing everything. The way work is done, the way business operates, the way consumers consume, the way society communicates. So what can it do for primary health care? Can it help Family Health Teams improve patient care? Through the lens of the LinkedIn platform this slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference will help you see collaboration in a new light, and help you learn how FHT’s can engage with each other like never before. PRESENTER: Kevin MacLeod FHT: Barrie & Community Family Health Team Click here to view.
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Kenora Wound Care Pilot Project
In September 2008, Sunset Country FHT received funding from Health Force Ontario for a Collaborative Wound Care Pilot Project that involved several community agencies in developing and implementing a comprehensive wound assessment and wound care treatment program based on best practice guidelines. This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference provides a study of an interprofessional team collaborating in developing a best practice based collaborative care model for wound care in a community setting. It presents a general overview of this innovative project, how the community was able to collaborate and develop a comprehensive wound care program and, demonstrate that the model is transferable to other communities and FHTs. PRESENTER: Randy Belair FHT: Sunset Country FHT Click here to view.
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Chronic Disease Management Programming
This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference presents lessons learned on the success and challenges in an interdisciplinary approach to chronic disease programmingm such as who should be involved in the process, how to get buy in from physicians, what focus areas to choose, etc. The format is a presentation followed by an interactive session. PRESENTER: Lucy Bonanno FHT: Summerville Family Health Team Click here to view.
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Evolution of a Mental Health Program in a FHT
This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference details the evolution of a mental health program in a FHT from Nov06 until present day. We will present tools (program charters, education taxonomies, policies/procedures, evaluation, wait list mgt, clinical benchmarks, etc,) We will discuss the team and our understanding of patients and team needs and roles. Finally, we will discuss traps and lessons learned.
PRESENTERS: Sherry Kennedy, Cathy O’Toole
FHT: Taddle Creek Family Health Team Click here to view.
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CPG Diabetes Tool Kit
This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference gives an overview of the CPG Tool Kit for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada, a handy reference for healthcare professionals. It bundles a comprehensive collection of the six major themes from the 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada—diabetes and cardiovascular disease; footcare; organization of care, pregnancy and children; lifestyle and physical activity; and access to and promotion of educational services.
PRESENTER: Carolyn Gall Casey
ORGANIZATION: Canadian Diabetes Association Click here to view.