Using Data to Improve Primary Care: System and Practice Level Perspectives
Dr. Rick Glazier, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
12:00–1:00 pm
Room B104, 2206 East Mall
School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia
Rick Glazier will first review the role of primary care in the health system and key challenges in Canada. He will then discuss the role of administrative and electronic medical record (EMR) data in building a research and quality improvement platform for primary care. He will also discuss the ways that administrative and EMR data fit within other data sources available to health systems and practices. The focus will be how data can be used at the practice and system levels to improve primary care.
Rick Glazier is a family physician and senior scientist and program lead of Primary Care and Population Health at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). He is a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and a scientist in its Centre for Research on Inner City Health. At the University of Toronto, Dr. Glazier is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and crossappointed at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His training in medicine took place at the University of Western Ontario, family medicine residency at Queen’s University and public health training at John Hopkins University. Dr.Glazier is president of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and a member of the Institute Advisory Board for CIHR’s Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. His research interests include evaluating health system transformation, primary care health services delivery models, health of disadvantaged populations, management of chronic conditions, and population-based and geographic methods for improving equity in health.
Please RSVP to reception@chspr.ubc.ca. A teleconference option may be available upon request.
This seminar is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and the Department of Family Practice.