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Upcoming Webinar:
Local Innovation in Population Health: Lessons from the LDPHM Initiative
Join us this month for a dynamic webinar exploring the Locally Driven Population Health Models (LDPHM, formerly known as the High Priority Community Strategy) initiative in Ontario. This session will provide an overview of the LDPHM approach, share key areas of work and early findings across Ontario, and highlight local innovations in population health planning and delivery. We will also be joined by representatives from the Health Common Solutions Lab, who are also participating alongside the communities. Hear directly from three community-based agencies involved in the initiative as they share their experiences, challenges, and practical lessons learned that can inform population health efforts across Ontario’s diverse regions. Whether you’re part of an OHT, CHC, public health unit, or another organization focused on health equity and systems transformation, this webinar will offer valuable insights for applying locally driven approaches in your context.
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Population Insights from Patient Reported Data: PREMs and PROMs
In February 2025, HSPN’s monthly webinar will focus on the use of patient surveys in primary care. The event will provide knowledge of the international focus on patient-reported data in the OECD Patient Reported Indicator Survey, including results from Canada and Ontario. We will also highlight the use of these data to drive improvement in primary care practice settings. Additional insights from our analyses of the OECD data highlight a number of factors that are associated with patient experience, including access, overall health, and income security. We will revisit the use of the HSPN patient experience survey with new insights on the association between social determinants of health and patient-reported outcomes and experience. We aim to create dialogue and discussion on the value and meaningful use of Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the identification of priorities for health system improvement.
Sense Making Population Health Management in Ontario Health Teams: A Diabetes Example
Ontario Health Teams are intended to hold fiscal and clinical accountability for an attributed population defined by primary care attachment and hospital referral and use patterns. OHTs will integrate care and use equity-based population health management approaches to deliver better health outcomes and provide better experiences for patients. Doing this requires several resources including population health data, methods to segment the population, indicators to assess improvement opportunities, engagement strategies to involve community, patients and providers in priority setting and co-design, implementation, monitoring and model adjustment. This webinar reviews the challenges faced by OHTs and identifies some key resources and opportunities for OHTs to leverage assets in Ontario to undertake these activities using diabetes management as a case example.
The learning objectives for this session are:
1) To understand the (five) principal elements of population health management
2) To understand population segmentation and the transitions of individuals between population “segments” over time
3) To understand the intersection of care pathways for acute and chronic conditions in a person-centred approach
4) To identify opportunities to improve person-centred care with an example of diabetes management.
How Population Segmentation applies to Population Health Management
In September, we come back to the topic of population segmentation with some insights on how population segments can be built and used. Debra Chen reviews how the Canadian Institutes for Health Information (CIHI) Population Health Grouper segments the population into groups. Samantha Magnus provides an example of how the British Columbia Ministry of Health has supported the use of segmentation for the BC Health System. Rob Reid and Christina Southey describe how segmentation is being used at the front lines of care delivery in Ontario Health Teams. Come for the content and stay for the chat. We look forward to hearing how OHTs are planning care for priority populations and choosing priority populations to focus on.
Measuring Patient and Provider Experience: Completing the Quadruple Aim
In May, we discussed the measures of provider experience and for patient experience that we recommend for use in OHTs. We heard from providers and patients to talk about experience from their own perspective.
Population Health Management
In February, we explored the topic population health management. What is it? How can you use population segmentation to direct efforts? Where in the world do they do this best ? How can we do it here in Ontario?