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Health Quality Connect


AN E-NEWSLETTER FROM HEALTH QUALITY ONTARIO


LET'S MAKE OUR HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTHIER


Welcome

This is the second edition of Health Quality Ontario’s e-newsletter, Health Quality Connect, your source for the latest on health care quality from our organization. This month, we’ve launched an exciting Quality Standards program, released new quality improvement reports and recommended two health interventions for public funding.

Upcoming Events

MARCH 4
Essential Elements of Quality Palliative Care Webcast, hosted by the Ontario Hospital Association and Health Quality Ontario

MARCH 22
Quality Rounds Ontario Webinar: Choosing Wisely Canada, An Ontario Perspective with Dr. Wendy Levinson


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GET INVOLVED: HELP SET THE STANDARD

Everyone wants high-quality care. But how do we know what it looks like? Enter Quality Standards, Health Quality Ontario’s new program that sets out to define best standards of care using clear and concise evidence-based statements. Do you want to get involved? We’re looking for participants to help develop Quality Standards for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Wound Care and Hip Fracture. We’re also welcoming topic suggestions for new potential standards.

Sign up to participate

Submit a topic for review


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NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS

For Heart Month, we’ve released recommendations from the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee to publicly fund two treatments to manage heart failure and stroke: Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Destination Therapy and Mechanical Thrombectomy for acute Ischemic stroke.

Find out more

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OPEN FOR FEEDBACK

When it comes to public funding for health interventions, Health Quality Ontario makes recommendations based on the best scientific evidence. We want to hear from you before these recommendations are finalized. That’s why we post all of our draft recommendations and health technology assessments (HTAs) and ask for feedback. Now open for feedback: Composite Tissue Transplant of Hand or Arm.

Comment now

Submit a new application for an hta


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DISCOVER NEW INSIGHTS INTO QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Each year, Ontario’s health care organizations submit Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) to identify, measure and plan improvement goals. Now you can review and reflect on lessons learned in the latest reports in our Insights into Quality Improvement series, which provide analyses of the 2015/16 QIPs submitted by hospitals and Community Care Access Centres (CCACs). Coming soon: Reports for long-term care homes and primary care.

Read the hospitals report

Read the CCACs report




Follow us on Twitter

We appreciate it when you share our work on social media, and always make every effort to engage with you both online and offline. Here are some recent social media highlights:

From an article featuring our patient engagement team…
@HealthyDebate writes: Beyond tokenism: How hospitals are getting more out of patient engagement: http://healthydebate.ca/2016/02/topic/hospitals-patient-engagement

Following our webinar introducing our new Quality Standards program...
@Quitenasita writes: Building quality standards for better patient care! Great webinar @HQO! Very informative. #QualityStandards

In case you missed it: A story guest edited by Dr. Joshua Tepper...
@LongwoodsNotes writes: Failure is the New Success by HealthcarePapers guest editors @docdanielle and @DrJoshuaTepper: http://www.longwoods.com/content/24489


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© 2016 Health Quality Ontario FEBRUARY 2016, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2

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