Health Analytics

Thanks again to our presenter, Christine Sham, on providing us an overview of the OHDC (Ontario Health Data Council) report and recommendations and the priorities they are pursuing at this time. Here's the link to the presentation. https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-analytics/4064-2023-01-26-ohdc-report-overview-recommendations-and-priorities

Hi. I'm seeking a mentor to guide a learning opportunity. I am hoping to complete an RNAO Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship focusing on Data Standards and Analytics in Public Health to coincide with our Health Unit undertaking a project to improve our data collection, reporting and analysis. My goal is to study how informatics and eHealth can more effectively be implemented in a Public Health setting to enhance data quality and lead to better practice and client outcomes. This would also feed into better multidisciplinary outcomes for epidemiology, organizational reporting, and data transfer in provincial reporting requirements. In order to do this, and receive funding from the RNAO to help backfill my position as I complete the work, there is a requirement that I find a mentor who is an RN with a minimum of Master's preparation who can help guide my learning. My background in Informatics and Data Analysis is extensively informal, as I have spent years working in EMR implementations, end-user interface development, data mapping from user interface to report generation to allow accurate reporting analysis, and coaching health care teams in eHealth functions. I'm hoping to be guided in the learning plan I will develop by a mentor with the knowledge and education to help me make a functional impact to the way we gather and use information. I have seen what appears to be a real gap in our Health Unit’s use of informatics. The RNAO’s Fact Sheet for Mentors is at https://rnao.ca/media/2738/download If this is something you would be interested in helping me with, please let me know. If this is something that a colleague might be interested in, please forward my contact info. Thank you for your time. Karen Greenfield

Hello all, At our next community meeting on January 26, 2023, Christine Sham, Director, Information Management Strategy and Policy at the Ministry, will present an overview of the key recommendations of the Ontario Health Data Council (OHDC) report and the Council's current priorities. The OHDC provides advice to the Minister of Health on the strategic management of Ontario’s health data to foster a person-centered learning health system. It published its first report in November 2022 (Ontario Health Data Council Report: A Vision for Ontario’s Health Data Ecosystem) with a series of recommendations on the management and integration of Ontarians’ health data to generate analytics, insights, and innovations needed by the health care sector and government decision-makers. The report recommends innovative, system-level approaches to data governance and data stewardship and the next phase of this work, deepening the understanding of how these approaches might be implemented, is already underway. The report can be found here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-health-data-council-report-vision-ontarios-health-data-ecosystem Please register ahead of the meeting here: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/news-events/event-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2023/01/26/35195/1305/health-analytics-community-meeting