Using Your Dashboard
Welcome to CareCanvas!
We have designed this dashboard to support you and your practice. The data, presentation, and tips have all been designed by practicing clinicians.
Please keep in mind:
The data are not perfect. We use algorithms that have been developed by researchers to identify common chronic conditions and some patients may be incorrectly classified. To learn more about how the data is analyzed click here.
Only you and the analysts preparing the report have access to your personalized dashboard. No one is using the data to judge your performance. The data is meant to support you to learn and improve practice.
Data identifying your practice and patients will not be shared with others. We have prepared dashboards for physician groups and Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) but these only contain aggregate data and no practice or physician can be identified.
How is CareCanvas Organized?
We have presented data in a lot of different clinical areas. Although this may seem overwhelming, we wanted to provide physicians with a fulsome picture of their practice so they can focus on what’s important to them. Use the left-hand menu to navigate to the part of the dashboard you are interested in.
Where relevant, we provide you with the option of downloading a list of patients who are overdue for a test or above target. Instead of names, we provide you with the EMR ID to help you identify the patient in your records. The list of patients is provided in an Excel format and can be sorted as you wish.
In each section, we have included a “Tips” box of resources to support practice improvement
How CareCanvas Can Be Useful
1It can provide you with a “system view” of your practice and tell you how your practice is the same or different from others
2It can help you reflect on opportunities for continuing professional development. Are there gaps in your knowledge that when addressed might influence the care you provide?
3It can help you identify what areas you can focus your quality improvement efforts. Instead of working harder one patient at a time, are there ways you can change how your practice is run or that your team works together to improve care in specific area? You can learn more about QI by viewing one or more of these free e-modules developed by the DFCM: Postgraduate Educational Series, Faculty Educational Series, and Primary Care Clinician Educational Series
4It can help you earn Mainpro+ credits. Any “Practice Audit” (under the Assessment Category) is eligible for “Certified” Mainpro+ credits. You can submit multiple activities for a maximum of 6 credits per practice audit. In addition, you can gain credit for the same activity through “Linking Learning to Assessment” and earn and additional 5 credits per reflection. You can do one reflection per activity and there is no limit to how many reflections you can do each cycle. Click here for a more detailed guide on how to acquire Mainpro credits using the dashboard.
5It can be a source of data to help you meet the CPSO QI program requirements. The dashboard can help support multiple elements of this mandatory program and help provide accurate data to inform practice improvement plans, and provide change ideas.
How Does CareCanvas
Compare with Other Reports?
There are several complementary practice reports available in Ontario.
Cancer Care Ontario’s Screening Activity Report provides practice and patient-level information on cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening from provincial databases. Reports are updated monthly and can be accessed using OneID. For more information, visit the Screening Activity Report (SAR) page on the Cancer Care Ontario website.
HQO’s MyPractice Report provides practice-level information using administrative databases. It includes information on some areas of practice that are not in CareCanvas including data on emergency department visits and care continuity. For more information and to sign up, visit MyPractice: Primary Care on the Health Quality Ontario website.
Ontario MD’s Insights4Care (i4C) is a dashboard of quality measures embedded within your Electronic Medical Record. It has different indicators than CareCanvas and users may need to clean their data to improve accuracy. It has the advantage of being directly linked to your patient records allowing easy follow-up. Sign up is limited to a few hundred physicians per year. For more information, visit Insights4Care on the OntarioMD website.
The dashboard is new and we would love your feedback! Please email your thoughts and suggestions to Care.Canvas@utoronto.ca