Let’s Get Digital February 20, 2019

Over 1,000 physicians will receive this report in 2019. Will you?

An Opportunity In 2019 we are moving the Primary Healthcare Panel Reports to a digital format. Provide users with interactive tools to dive deeper into their patient data. Users will be able to assess their continuity for populations of interest and view how their panel continuity differs from a comparator, such as another PCN.

What is the Report? The Primary Healthcare Panel Reports contain 24 measures from 12 different administrative data sources, separate from the EMR. Since 2011, the HQCA has been providing panel reports as a free resource for family physicians across the province. Reports support and inform program planning, panel management, practice improvement, and policy development. Clients who receive the survey can choose to return the survey via mail using a prepaid envelope, or they can access the survey online using a unique code. For those who are cognitively unwell, we will capture their experiences via a face-to-face interview, exploring in depth their experiences. In addition, among those who we interview, we will also interview their live-in family informal caregiver.

Information Provided Provider and clinic continuity at the patient level Screening Chronic disease management Access Health status Patient utilization patterns How can you contribute to the success of this initiative? All we ask is that you: Know about the survey; that it is going on If asked by a client, to encourage participation To not assist clients with the survey And forward any questions to the HQCA

What’s in it for me? To help you with this, if you access the link shown here, we have constructed several materials, such as a fact sheet and poster that provides details about the survey relevant to you

Going Digital Offers Customizable reports Interactive charts and graphs Identification and focus on specific clinical and Demographic populations New ways to evaluate continuity and access Print capability

Benefits for Primary Care Standardized reporting Information for program planning and panel Management More clinically relevant and actionable data Supports quality improvement at the provider, clinic, PCN, Zone, and provincial level

Request your panel report today www.hqca.ca/panelreports If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know!