Contributing to D2D 2.0
The deadline to request ICES data is April 21, 2015. A detailed timeline for D2D 2.0 implementation is available on the AFHTO website along with the D2D 2.0 data elements and data dictionary. The most important next steps are:
- Sign up to contribute data to D2D 2.0 and create a codename to retrieve data from the report once it’s live.
- Schedule meetings with your Board and/or physicians to get the necessary permissions to request ICES data by April 21, 2015. You will receive your ICES data by May 17th. Note: A signed version of the form is required. Please scan and email to AFHTO or fax to (416) 920 6556 attention Denise Pinto.
- The deadline to submit data from all sources via the D2D 2.0 submission platform is May 28, 2015. Note for NPLCs: we are developing a submission plan so stay tuned!
The Patient-Doctor Relationship Survey is live – have your say! This patient survey measures what’s important to patients in their relationship with their doctor and results will be a used to inform D2D 2.0. It’s being administered to patients nation-wide. We encourage you to complete the survey yourself, as a patient, and share and/or tweet the following to your patients and peers:
#HaveYourSay: @PatientsCanada & @afhto want to know- what matters to you in your patient-doctor relationship? http://ow.ly/L5P9Z
Contact Puja Ahluwalia for more details.
Using D2D 1.0 to improve data quality and care
Does you EMR need a spring tune-up? Consider hiring a student to clean up the data in your EMR. The hire a student toolkit will help you recruit a student, write a job description, and conduct an interview. In addition to the toolkit, AFHTO would like to support members by offering to host orientation sessions for their students. To help us gauge the need, please complete this survey to tell us what type of session would be useful. For more information contact Greg Mitchell. Strengthening the connection between primary care and the cancer system The regional sessions with the QIDSS hosted by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) are bearing fruit! In the South East LHIN the CCO primary care cancer lead will be collaborating with local QIDSSs on a regional QI project to collectively reach under-screened patients using the screening activity report (SAR) and other relevant measures. The regional sessions continue in Thunder Bay in May.
Other news
Investment in primary care pays off! In a recent Hamilton Spectator editorial, managing editor Howard Elliott stated that family health teams “are a more holistic approach to primary care” and made the case for continued government support of the family health team model. AFHTO’S response “Investment in primary care lowers costs” quickly became the most popular letter of the day. This is why AFHTO members are working hard to advance measurement and improvement in primary care, with the objective of optimizing quality, access and total health system cost of care for patients. Guide the AFHTO 2015 Conference program and discover the thought leaders in primary care You, your colleagues and patients are invited to join the AFHTO annual conference program working groups. Help discover the thought leaders in your chosen topic area and shape the content of the annual AFHTO conference for your peers across the province. Click here to sign up before April 7, 2015 to confirm participation and select the conference theme that is of interest to you. By participating, a $50 discount will be applied to your registration for the AFHTO 2015 Conference taking place Oct. 28 & 29, 2015! What do you think? We hope you find value in the D2D eBulletin and will continue to subscribe to this newsletter. Other members of your team can sign up by clicking here. Once they complete the sign-up form a confirmation e-mail will be sent within 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have any comments or questions about the eBulletin, please let us know by e-mail to improve@afhto.ca. What is D2D? Data to Decisions (D2D) is a member-wide summary of performance on indicators that are both possible for members to measure and that are meaningful to members. See the D2D page on AFHTO’s website for more information.
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