NEW privacy breach reporting rules effective Oct. 1 and NEW guidelines to support you in meeting them
Effective October 1, 2017, health information custodians (HICs) will be required to report certain privacy breaches to the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC). The IPC has published new guidelines to support you in complying with these new rules. Please read them here and distribute them widely to all members of your team. The new guidelines […]
EMR queries for D2D – EMR Data Quality: Coded Diagnosis – Depression
The EMR queries below were developed by QIDSS and the EMR Communities of Practice to help you extract data for submission to D2D. Telus PS Accuro Nightingale OSCAR P&P NOTE: All queries are tested and validated prior to release. However, changes that take place after the queries are released may affect how accurate they […]
EMR queries for D2D – EMR Data Quality: Coded Diagnosis – COPD
The EMR queries below were developed by QIDSS and the EMR Communities of Practice to help you extract data for submission to D2D. Telus PS Accuro Nightingale OSCAR P&P NOTE: All queries are tested and validated prior to release. However, changes that take place after the queries are released may affect how accurate they […]
EMR queries for D2D – EMR Data Quality: Coded Diagnosis – CHF
The EMR queries below were developed by QIDSS and the EMR Communities of Practiceto help you extract data for submission to D2D. Telus PS Accuro Nightingale OSCAR P&P NOTE: All queries are tested and validated prior to release. However, changes that take place after the queries are released may affect how accurate they are. […]
Patient Oriented Discharge Summaries: Putting Patients at the Centre of Follow-Up Care
Please consider sharing this with your Quality Committee, your clinical staff, site coordinators or anyone who is working in your team to make a difference with follow-up after hospitalization. We understand that teams are sometimes frustrated in their efforts to provide meaningful follow-up for patients after they have been hospitalized. AFHTO and research partners from […]
Paediatric Project ECHO: moving knowledge, not people
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) will be launching Paediatric Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) in October 2017. Paediatric Project ECHO aims to connect community-based healthcare providers with specialists at SickKids, to build capacity in the community to care for paediatric patients. Paediatric Project ECHO expands the knowledge base of healthcare professionals through innovative virtual mentorship […]
Participate in the QI Enablers Study
Five iterations of D2D data show that some teams tend to improve more over time compared to others. AFHTO members want to know what some of the “tricks of the improvement trade” are so they can try them out in their own teams. This QI enablers study is aimed at learning more about what makes […]
Bylaws
Peterborough FHT Bylaws – June 2019 Thames Valley FHT Bylaw #1 – June 2014 Atikokan FHT Bylaw #1 – June 2015 Points North FHT Bylaw #1 Etobicoke Medical Centre FHT By-law #1 – September 2014 Please share your resources to help build our library. Return to the Library of Organizational Policies and Procedures.
Governance Policies
Please share your resources to help build our library. Board Policies Provincial Policies and Procedures Manual Board Policies & Procedures – North York FHT Certificate of Compliance – Thames Valley FHT [PDF] Board Policy Manual – West Champlain FHT [PDF] Administrative Policies – Leamington & Area FHT [PDF] The Consent Agenda: A Tool for Improving Governance – […]
FREE Governance Webinar July 11: Strategies for Building and Maintaining an Effective Board in Primary Care
AFHTO has recently partnered with the Governance Centre of Excellence, to offer our members a series of webcast and online learning modules to better serve your governance needs and empower board leadership. Please join us for the first webcast on Tuesday, July 11th from 12:00-1:30pm: Strategies for Building and Maintaining an Effective Board in Primary […]