REMINDER: Opportunity to apply for QIDS Innovation Funding
A few days ago AFHTO announced the availability of $95,000 in QIDS Innovation Funding. Note that this one-time opportunity is very time sensitive. Interested applicants will need to notify Tim Burns (tim.burns@afhto.ca) of their intent to apply by December 6, 2013. This initiative will serve as a catalyst for collaboration and system capacity building. Every effort is being made to maintain a simple, yet transparent and open process for the allocation of these funds. All members, regardless of current QI or EMR sophistication are encouraged to consider applying or joining with peers to submit an application. It is anticipated that three to five projects will be supported.
Please refer to the QIDS Innovation Submission Process and Guidelines on the AFHTO members-only web-site for more detail. FHT EMR Landscape Report A first report on the FHT EMR Landscape is now available. AFHTO received over 120 suggestions for topics for discussion with EMR vendors at the October conference. The EMR sessions themselves were attended by over 330 individuals. The first FHT EMR Landscape Report will include an early analysis of gaps in adoption and functionality across EMRs. We look forward to your feedback as we would like to develop this into a regular report to share with members and our partners at OntarioMD and eHealth Ontario. QIDS Steering Committee Update The QIDS Steering Committee, Chaired by Ross Kirkconnell, had its first meeting on October 21. The group agreed to re-convene in the New Year for a more in-depth discussion of the six strategic themes that are emerging for the QIDS program:
1. Collaboration and leadership
2. Building QI Decision Support Capacity and Capability
3. Optimizing the current state
4. Identifying early opportunities to report on indicators and improving them over time
5. Aligning our partners and supply chain
6. Innovating to create access to new data sources, tools and knowledge.
QIDS Specialists in the field We are also delighted to hear from more and more QIDS Specialists and others in the decision support community in our weekly check-ins. For the list of QIDS Specialists and other decision support specialists across the province, please sign into the AFHTO members-only website then go to https://www.afhto.ca/news-events/news/library/qids/qids-specialist-team/.
Please contact Denise Pinto (improve@afhto.ca) to be added to our weekly check-in group. Coming up: Privacy Resources: Depending on the local context and the goals of the QIDS partnerships, it is possible that complex privacy issues and concerns could be raised by the partners. In order to provide additional support and build our collective expertise, AFHTO will be retaining the services of a privacy expert. Please continue to make us aware of these issues and concerns as well as any solutions that you are implementing so that we can build the provincial knowledge base.
Implementation of QIDS Partnerships: The provincial team is very interested in identifying practical means to support the evolution of QIDS partnerships. Tim Burns and Carol Mulder are reaching out to all QIDS hosts to gain a better understanding of successes and challenges in partnership implementation. We are aware that a number of very encouraging agreements are nearing fruition. Members are encouraged to share these documents with the provincial team as they become available so that they can serve as examples for others. The team is also available to help facilitate partnership discussion where this may be of assistance. For a more detailed update and to keep abreast of developments in the QIDS program, please visit https://www.afhto.ca/news-events/news//qids/
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