Information to Action 2017

Readiness Self-Assessment

Information to Action is a basket of resources and tools teams can use to make progress in primary care quality. Information to Action will provide dedicated support to teams interested in building on their momentum in measurement to improve their performance.

Interested teams are invited to complete a self-assessment of their readiness to succeed in the Information to Action initiative by asking themselves the following questions:

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* 1. Contact information

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* 2. Have all of your leaders agreed to participate in Information to Action? You know who your leaders are. Are they ready to make sure that the team follows through on their home work?

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* 3. Does your team’s physicians know what their role is? Is there at least one physician who agrees to champion the project and encourage other team staff and physicians to participate? If not, is there at least one physician who agrees to accommodate the project and allow access to their staff, patients and/or data as necessary for the project to proceed?

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* 4. Can you agree on at least one problem you all want to solve? There is likely no end of things that bother someone or other on your team. Is there one problem (or possibly 2) that you all want to do something about sooner rather than later? You do not need to have a fully defined “QI project” or research question – you will do that as part of this initiative. You just all have to agree that you want to take on this problem.

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* 5. Does your QIDSS (or similar person) have access to your EMR? It is almost certain that you will need to get at your EMR data to succeed with this. Administrative staff supporting the initiative (usually QIDSS or similar person) must have be able to extract data from your EMR. Have you got that set up yet or at least in progress?

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* 6. Are you prepared to do your homework? Your part in the initiative involves completing some baseline activities to measure and increase your access to data. These activities are listed below. Is your team ready to do these things as best you can?

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* 7. Are you still working on getting ready? Maybe your team wants to do some of your own work first before signing up for this initiative. Perhaps you have other pressing issues. If your team is not yet ready to participate in this improvement initiative, all is not lost. You can still participate in the improvement activities available to all members. You can also work on the criteria above at your own pace. There will likely be additional supports for improvement after the initial cohort for this improvement initiative is completed. The exact nature of the second cohort depends on how things go with the first. In addition, you may be able to make progress on your own even outside the improvement initiative because some of the services/supports are already available to members on request.

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* 8. Comments?