Department of Medicine

 

In addition to taking on the role of Section Chief, Dr. Ward Flemons has also assumed the position of Vice-Chair for Health Analytics, and Safety. Dr. Flemons is widely recognized as having experience in these areas, having previously been engaged with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and as a Medical Director with the Health and Quality Council of Alberta. Dr. Flemons works closely with Edwin Enns, a senior data analyst, to access AHS’s extensive electronic data sources and build analysis and reports for the benefit of each Section and those members within Sections who wish to avail themselves of this opportunity. We are of no doubt that better data analytics, driven by appropriate clinical questions, will lead to improved models of practice and patient safety, and to more comprehensive short, medium, and long- term workforce planning within the Department. We want Calgary to continue to lead in the development of innovative models of care locally and nationally, and believe that prioritizing this initiative will allow us to continue to do so.

MEDICAL ANALYTICAL TEAM SUPPORT

Requests for support can be sent directly to edwin.enns@ahs.ca. These will be reviewed with DoM leadership and prioritized.

CMS ANALYTICAL TABLES IN TABLEAU

Catalogue	Area	Workbook	Tableau Workbook Name	Stage	Automation
CMS Physician Activity Measures	Department of Medicine		CMS Physician Activity Summary	Complete	Stopped
			CMS Attending Groups	Complete	Active
			CMS Attending Groups Hourly Census	Complete	Active
			CMS Nocturnist	Adhoc
			DOM Halfday Workload Measure	Adhoc
			DOM Hospital Workload Measures	Complete	Active
			Hackathon Attending Groups	Adhoc
	Gastroenterology		CMS Physician Activity - GI	Complete	Stopped
	General Internal Medicine		CMS Physician Activity GIM	Complete	Stopped
			Anshulas GIM Workbook	Complete	No
			CMS Attending Groups_GIM	Complete	Stopped
			GIM Site Lead Measures	Complete	Stopped
	Nephrology		CMS Physician Activity Neph	Complete	Active
	Respiratory		CMS Physician Activity Resp	Complete	Stopped
CMS Operations - Utilization Measures	Clinics		CMS Clinic Utilization	On Hold	Stopped
CMS Patient Quality of Care Measures	Gastroenterology	Cirrhosis	CMS_QOC_Cirrhosis	Completed	Active
	Haematology		Hemophilia	Completed	Adhoc
	Infectious Diseases	HPTP	CMS_QOC_HPTP	In Process
	Nephrology	Acute Kidney Injury	AKI	On Hold
	Respiratory	COPD	CMS Patient Quality of Care Measures COPD	Completed	Active
			LTBI Measures	Completed	Active
	Rheumatology	Rheumatoid Arthritis	R4U_measures_v3	Completed	Active
	Inpatient	Peri-Operative Care	CMS_QOC_Glycemic Management	Completed	Active

Note: Requests for access to any of these can be made to edwin.enns@ahs.ca

HEALTH ANALYTICS WORKING GROUP

The Department of Medicine and Medical Services, Calgary Zone Health Analytics Working Group (HAWG) has been created to promote and develop clinical outcome, process and structure measures for important patient populations that the Department is accountable for in whole or in part. Clinical measures created by the HAWG will identify opportunities for clinicians and AHS operational leaders to improve patient care, reduce cost and resource use, and improve patient experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify and prioritize patient populations
  • Develop a method for defining patient populations
    • Using an ICD-10 grouping methodology
  • Link costing and resource use to patient populations
  • Define prioritization criteria
  • Prioritize patient populations based on approved criteria
• Collaboratively develop important clinical outcome measures
• Develop measures of the important clinical processes and structures where research-based evidence supports their effect on the outcomes of interest
• Develop key process and structure measures
• Work collaboratively with DIMR to create data marts, identify and source data
• Develop detailed data definitions
• Create automated reports of measures
• Provide recommendations to the Medical Services Executive Committee to create supported working groups to improve mean results, and / or variation of results of the clinical measures that have been developed

MEMBERSHIP LIST (JAN. 2022)

Name	Role
Allan Ryan	Clinical Analytics
Anshula Ambasta	General Internal Medicine
Aziz Shaheen	Gastroenterology
Barbara Roberts	Calgary Zone Analytics and Reporting, DIMR
Claire Barber	Rheumatology
Deirdre McCaughey	Community Health Sciences
Derek Beatch	Senior Analyst
Edwin Enns	Analytics Team Lead
Erika Dempsey	Geriatric Medicine
Fiona Clement	Community Health Sciences
Kristen Brown	Infectious Diseases
Laurie Parsons	Dermatology
Lesley Street	Hematology
Peter Faris	Research Facilitation
Vicky Parkins	Endocrinology
Ward Flemons	HAWG Chair