Monday, September 22, 2008

Registration: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks: 8:45–10:35 a.m.

Data in Action

Ms. Glenda Yeates, President and CEO
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Plenary

From Health Data to Health Policy: International Experiences

Our featured speakers from Scotland and the United States will share experiences of how data are being used to shape health policy in these two countries.

Linking Health Information in Scotland

Ms. Carole Morris, Principal Information Analyst
Information Service Division, National Health Services, Scotland.

The U. S. National Health Care Surveys: Tools for Health Care Policy

Dr. Nancy Sonnefeld, Public Health Analyst, Division of Health Care Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Posters Viewing and Coffee Break: 10:35–11 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.


1A: Mapping the Future of Health Care

The motivation for designing any map is to enhance efficiency and simplify a journey. This session explores the use of geospatial data and techniques to connect the dots along the patient pathway through the health system.

Moderator: Margaret Keresteci, CIHI

  • Understanding Your Target Population: An Increasing Imperative in Health Planning
    Doug Norris, Senior Vice President and Chief Demographer, Environics Analytics

  • Geodemographic Profiling to Benchmark in Planning and Forecasting, Service Utilization and CDM
    Daria Parsons, Health Care Consultant, Environics Analytics

  • Linking Populations to Health Service Providers: Alternative Geographic Planning Techniques
    Alan Ruth, Analyst, Healthcor
  • Measuring Rurality—How Geospatial Data and GIS Software Broaden the Horizons
    Elsa Ho, Senior Health Information Analyst, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario



1B: Planning Outside the Box: Modelling and Methods in Health Human Resources

This session examines innovative data analysis methods employed to better understand human resource requirements for health care providers. Presentations will focus on analysis of full-time equivalent (FTE) counts and the use of microsimulation modelling to project need for human resources in home care.

Moderator: Erik Markhauser, CIHI

  • Head Counts Versus FTE Counts of the Nursing Workforce: Is There a Difference?
    Lori Kirby, Senior Analyst, CIHI
  • Floating or Fixed? Results From Different Methods of Calculating Full-Time Equivalent Physician Numbers
    Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Post-doctoral fellow, Senior Research, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Statistics Canada
  • Projecting Human Resource Needs in Chronic Home Care, 2001–2031
    Jacques Legare, Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal



1C: Primary Health Care (PHC): New and Future Data Collection

New surveys and other approaches for gathering information to answer research and policy questions related to primary health care are in development.  This session will highlight two surveys aimed at collecting primary care data.  In addition, this session will provide an overview of the CIHI primary health care information program, launched to fill data gaps by expanding pan-Canadian PHC indicator data sources in the areas of quality, continuity, coordination, patient safety, access, organization and service delivery and outcomes.

 
Moderator: Claudia Sanmartin, Statistics Canada

  • Improve Data Standards and Collection for Primary Health Care to Measure and Understand Performance Across Canada
    Patricia Sullivan-Taylor, Manager, Primary Health Care, CIHI


Posters Viewing and Lunch: 12:15–1:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions: 1:30–2:45 p.m.


2A: Applying Financial and Clinical Data in Planning and Decision-Making: Effective Resourcing

This session will look at methods developed to estimate hospital productivity using financial and clinical activity data. The discussion will encompass how analysis can guide funding as well as hospital policy in reducing costs while improving quality of care.

Moderator: Christopher Kuchciak, CIHI

  • Measuring Health System Productivity in Canada
    Colin Preyra, Director, The Canadian Health Services Research Group
  • Developing an Inpatient Mental Health Case Funding Systems
    Imtiaz Daniel, Consultant, Joint Policy and Planning Committee
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Preventing Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections Among Haemodialysis Patients in Canada in 2004
    Zhiyong Hong, Senior Epidemiologist/Professor, Public Health Agency of Canada, University of Ottawa



2B: Focus on Populations to Inform Health Decision-Making

This session will look at use of demographic data to help identify different target populations that may assist programs in targeting more specific needs. Examples will include the use of demographics to help inform and increase rates of breastfeeding in a community. In addition, examples and challenges of institutions using ethnicity information to adapt their health, social services, housing, safety and transportation services will be outlined. As well, a comparative analysis between using Canadian census or local registry data in defining measures used in health system governance will be presented.

Moderator: Andrew Taylor, CIHI

  • Neighbourhood Quality of Life Change in Saskatoon, Canada: A Geographic Analysis
    Peter Kitchen, Post-doctoral fellow, McMaster University


2C: Workforce in Transition—Trends Among Canada's Health Care Providers

This session examines emerging trends in our changing health workforce. Presentations will describe patterns in provider satisfaction and workload, employment characteristics and trends of new graduates, and highlight the impact of unpaid caregiving on labour force participation.

Moderator: Ruzica Subotic-Howell, CIHI

  • Applying Data in Planning and Decision-Making for Community and Public Health Human Resources
    Jane Underwood, Associate Clinical Professor, McMaster University


Posters Viewing and Coffee Break: 2:45–3:30 p.m. (Adam Room)

Plenary: 3:30–4:30 p.m. (Ballroom)


The Use of Data for Policy Research on Prescription Drugs

Steve Morgan, Associate Director of the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia


Welcome Reception: 4:30–6 p.m. (Drawing Room)

All conference delegates are invited to join us for refreshments and an opportunity to network with colleagues.

 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Registration: 8 a.m.–10 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions: 9–10:30 a.m. (Ballroom)


3A: Overcoming Challenges of Data Definitions and New Analyses


This session will explore the challenges of defining alternate level of care and day procedures in acute care databases. It will also provide new analyses in areas that have proven to be challenging to measure in a comprehensive and comparable way in the past. 

Moderator: Bernie Paillé, CIHI

  • Alternate Level of Care: Capturing the Construct and Data Quality
    Antoni Basinski, Senior Consultant, Joint Policy and Planning Committee
  • Improving Comparability in Day Procedure Case Definition
    Kira Leeb, Senior Consultant, CIHI
  • Emergency Department Visits in Adult Patients Caused by Adverse Drug Events, Newfoundland and Labrador
    Khokan C. Sikdar, Senior Biostatistician, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information




3B: Innovative Approaches Linking Socio-Economic Status and Other Factors to Health Outcomes

This session looks at innovative ways of understanding patterns in population health. Different measures of socio-economic status are outlined and described. Presentations will look at inequities across different indicators of socio-economic status among health outcomes such as mortality, body mass index (BMI) and quality of life.

Moderator: Luc Turcotte, CIHI

  • Mortality Inequalities and the Relationship With Contextual Socio-Economic Status in Thailand
    Dr. Pinij Faramnuayphol, Health Information System Development Office, Health Systems Research Institute
  • Understanding the Socio-Economic Patterning of Shifts Over Time in Body Mass Index Across the Canadian Working-Age Population
    Lindsay McLaren, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
  • “Taboo Data” or the Use of Ethnic Data in Planning Public Services Among Pluralist Clients (presented in French)
    Sylvie Gravel, professeure, Département d’organisation et ressources humaines, École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal


3C: Understanding Patients’ Primary Health Care Experience

Using data from the Canadian Survey of Experiences With Primary Health Care, presenters will discuss what we have learned, at the national level, about patient experiences, focusing on access and patients with chronic illness.  The relationship between access to primary health care teams, processes of care and outcomes will also be explored.

Moderator: Patricia Sullivan-Taylor, CIHI

  • The Canadian Survey of Experiences With Primary Health Care: A New National Data Source on PHC
    Denis Poulin, Project Manager, Statistics Canada
  • Canadians’ Experiences With Chronic Illness Care
    Farrah Prebtani, Project Manager, Health Council of Canada


Posters Viewing and Coffee Break: 10:30–11 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.


4A: Where Does the Money Go?

There is variability in hospital resource consumption across facilities, regions and provinces in Canada. This session illustrates how data analysis tools can be used to examine hospital spending, and proposes how equitable funding and appropriate resource allocation decisions can be achieved.

Moderator: Douglas Yeo, CIHI

  • Hospital Spending on Emergency Departments: Provincial and Regional Variations
    Greg Zinck, Manager, MIS and Costing, CIHI
  • Using Existing Case Mix Methods to Fund Trauma Cases
    Julia Monakova, JPPC Consultant, Joint Policy and Planning Committee



4B: Charting the Course: Planning for Tomorrow's Health Workforce Needs

This session examines data analysis methods and strategies to plan for our future health care provider human resource requirements. Presentations will describe the utility in examining provider practice patterns and preferences, innovative methods to use existing databases for improved planning and strategies to better improve new graduate and employer participation through an evaluation of Ontario's Nursing Graduate Guarantee.

Moderator: Michael Rajendram, CIHI

  • Is Finding a Job an Easy Job?
    Jingbo Zhang, Program Lead, CIHI
  • The Labour Supply of Unpaid Caregivers in Canada
    Meredith B. Lilly, Post-doctoral research fellow, York University

4C: Building Bridges With Data


This session explores innovative ways that bridges have been built between various data sources to inform decision-making and improve the delivery of health services in Canada.

Moderator: Lisa Corscadden, CIHI

  • Measuring the Extent of Integration of Hospital and Home Care Service Delivery in Ontario Using Administrative Data
    Gavin Wardle, Joint Policy and Planning Committee
  • Compound Performance Indicators: Bridging Management and Coal-Face Requirements.
    Antoni Basinski, Joint Policy and Planning Committee
  • Data in Action: CIHI–interRAI Collaboration Supports Decision-Makers
    Nancy White, Manager, Home and Continuing Care Development, CIHI
  • Using Linked Inter-Ministerial Data to Assess the Impact of Health Services on Reoffending Rates
    Lydia Cartar, Data Analyst, Simon Fraser University



Posters Viewing and Lunch: 12:30–1:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions: 1:30–3 p.m.


5A: Births to Hip Replacements: Using Linked Data to Address a Lifecycle of Health and Social Issues

In order for health planners and clinicians to better understand patient pathways and health outcomes it is essential to analyze data that illustrate episodes of care. Health policy-makers are also asking system-based questions that look beyond single entity administrative or clinical registry data. This session highlights four studies that have used data from more than one data set to provide a more complete comprehensive story.

Moderator: Richard Trudeau, Statistics Canada

  • Using Administrative Data to Distinguish Key Pre-Diagnosis Events Leading to a Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis
    Charlotte King, Alberta Cancer Board




5B: Transforming Data Into Information: Examples of Decision Support Tools to Improve Quality of Care

This session will illustrate a variety of methods used to engage physicians and others in understanding data with the view to improved use of data for decision-making. Highlighted methods include a medical quality scorecard, a business intelligence solution to provide timely access to data for patients waiting for advanced cardiac care procedures, a simulation model analysis for patients admitted via the emergency department and a surgical wait list management system.

Moderator: Heather Dawson, CIHI

  • Creation of a Business Intelligence Solution to Support Best Practice in Cardiac Care
    Caroline Rafferty, Director Quality and Performance, Cardiac Care Network of Ontario
  • Capacity Management in Acute Care: The Relationship Between Access to an Inpatient Bed From the Emergency Department Is Related to Hospital Occupancy Rates
    Martha Burd, Director, Modeling and Analysis Team, Health System Planning, B.C. Ministry of Health
  • A Comprehensive Approach to Surgical Wait List/Access Management
    John Lott, Director, Information Analysis and Distribution, CIO SEAMO, Kingston General Hospital



Posters Viewing and Coffee Break: 3–3:30 p.m.

Closing Plenary: 3:30–4:30 p.m.


Non-Medical Determinants of Health: Use of Data to Influence Policy

Dr. John Millar, Executive Director
Population and Public Health, Provincial Health Services Authority, British Columbia


Health Information: Lots of Good Words, Some Sentences, Paragraphs and Stories Still Coming

Dr. Michael C. Wolfson, Assistant Chief Statistician
Statistics Canada