Using Your Dashboard
Welcome to CareCanvas+
We have designed this dashboard to support you and your clinic. The data, presentation, and tips have all been designed by practicing clinicians, with input from Executive Directors, QI Directors, and Department Chiefs.
Data for CareCanvas+ is extracted from three sources: the Patient Experience Surveys, ICES, and your electronic medical records (EMR).
Access to this clinic-level dashboard is restricted to physicians enrolled in CareCanvas+. The distribution of this data to your healthcare organization’s leadership team remains entirely at your discretion.
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.
Data identifying your practice will not be shared with others. The clinic dashboard includes EMR data that mirrors the physician-level dashboard, however the data is aggregated for the clinic and no physician-level or patient-level information is included.
A physician practice level dashboard is also available to help individual physicians identify patients that may need to be contacted.
How is CareCanvas+ Organized?
We have presented data in a lot of different clinical areas. Although this may seem overwhelming, we wanted to provide clinics 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.
In most sections, we provide you with the option of comparing how you are faring in a quality area with peers at the DFCM and with peers contributing data to POPLAR.
Where relevant, we provide you with the option of downloading graphs and spreadsheets for your immediate use in reporting and presentations.
For your convenience, indicators that are commonly used for reporting have been compiled under ‘Common Indicators’.
Patient Experience data extracted from your Patient Experience Surveys are also provided.
How CareCanvas+ Can Be Useful
1It can provide you with a “system view” of your clinic and tell you how your practice is the same or different from others
2It 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 clinic is run or how your team works together to improve care in a specific area?
3It can provide you with graphics or data for quarterly reporting, QI plans, and presentations.
4It can help you advocate for resources for specific populations and understand where resources should be focused.
How Does CareCanvas+
Compare with Other Reports?
There are several complementary practice reports available in Ontario.
MyPractice Primary Care Physician 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 Ontario Health website.
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 ONE ID.
The MyPractice Primary Care Plus (with Screening Activity Report data) streamlines access to the Screening Activity Report (SAR) and MyPractice Primary Care Physician Report via a single report available on the eReport platform.
For more information, physicians can visit the Clinical Reporting section on the Ontario Health website.
How do I sign up?
Please contact care.canvas@utoronto.ca for more information & to be added to our mailing list
The dashboard is new and we would love your feedback! Please email your thoughts and suggestions to Care.Canvas@utoronto.ca