Clinical analytics in primary care

At the aggregate level, patient data can be reused by ministries of health, health quality councils and health system researchers to investigate population health and to assess how policy and program investments impact the performance of the health care system. [...] Additionally, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), in collaboration with Infoway and stakeholders from across the country, established the Pan-Canadian Primary Health Care Electronic Medical Record Content Standard (PHC EMR CS) in 2011.10 The standard will increase the availability of a minimum set of structured coded data in EMRs and support quality improvement and health system [...] For example: The practice will need to invest time and resources in its people: o The practice will need to provide learning and development opportunities for key people to engage in processes related to data governance, privacy and safeguard management of personal health information, appropriate use of technology, scope management, and informatics12 o Clinicians will need to be trained to ask t [...] Clinical Analytics in Primary Care Page 13 of 59 This white paper has been written for primary care clinicians who wish to enhance the use of their EMRs and others who work to design, implement and leverage EMRs to improve the health of Canadians. [...] Clinical Analytics in Primary Care Page 14 of 59 4 Defining Clinical Analytics The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Infoway offer the following definition for health system use of data in a recently published vision paper (2013) on the topic: “Health system use of data generally comprises the use of health information to support clinical programs (for example, through decision-