CIHI Portal

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CIHI Portal CAPHC

• Lisa MacGillivray, Project Consultant, Business
  Development
• CIHI Portal
• 15 October 2006
• CAPHC Annual Conference
• Vancouver, BC

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About CIHI

• Strategic Directions
• CIHI-CAPHC Partnership
• Lessons Learned, so far
• Making our partnership stronger

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CIHIs Strategic Directions
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Principles

• Get the right data in the right hands with
  the right tools
• CIHI Data Access
• Facility identifying pan-Canadian
• At the Coal Face
• Local questions and customization
• Supported by an Enterprise Architecture
• Integrated back end optimized for query and
  analysis of system
• With User Friendly Tools
• Multiple entry points maximizing analytical
  standards and reuse
• To Broaden Information Audience and Application
• Strengthen analytical capacity among virtual user
  community get data in the hands of decision
  makers

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The CIHI-CAPHC Partnership

• Based on three key agreements
• CAPHC Agreements to its Members
• Establishes who is a CAPHC member
• Establishes the basis of facility identifiable
  reports amongst CAPHC members
• CIHI-CAPHC Letter of Understanding
• Establishes the CAPHC user pool
• CIHI Portal Service Agreements
• Establishes institutions/health organizations as
  CIHI Portal Clients

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The CIHI-CAPHC Partnership

• Other important agreements/understandings
• Quebec Ministry of Health
• Releasing Quebec morbidity data is outside the
  scope of our data sharing agreement with Quebec.
• CIHI is working closely with its primary liaison
  in the province of Quebec to acquire the
  necessary permissions to move forward.
• Highlighting the importance acquiring these
  enhanced permissions within Quebec is a great
  help as we communicate with Quebec officials.

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Lessons Learned

• Validation that Portal improves data quality
• Open discussions on inter- and intra-provincial
  coding variations
• Identification and Development of critical
  reports that all clients need to see to get
  immediate return on investment
• Benchmarks, existing CIHI reports etc.

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Lessons Learned

• Our partnership is a constant continual
  evolution

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Making the Partnership Stronger

• Completing the CAPHC Annual Report
• Open year DAD
• Timeliness of data
• Addition of 05/06 DAD data imminent
• Moving towards universal ICD-10-CA
• Exploring timelines for bilingual Portal offer
• Exploring timelines for the addition of MIS

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Making the Partnership Stronger

• Other interesting additions in the coming months
• GIS Mapping
• Integrated discovery and display
• Neighbourhood demographic data
• Socio economic characteristics
• Facility peer comparators
• Organization index across data holdings

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Questions?