Quality Improvement Council

Population Health Program

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Program Manager

Rachel Overell

Email: rachel overell

What is the Population Health Program?

Bayside General Practice Network seeks to better understand practice data to support our primary health care focus on prevention, intervention and risk factor management within general practice. Population Health is aimed at encouraging practices to make full use of their own practice data through various extraction tools, which in turn enables the practice to improve the quality of practice data and create better patient health outcomes.

What does the Population Health Program do?

To identify these needs, Bayside GP Network has purchased licenses for the PEN Clinical Audit Tool and Practice Health Atlas for its members. These tools give practices a better understanding of their practice data which in turn would allow practices to focus on prevention, intervention and risk factor management.

A structured Population Health program will enable the Network to collect, aggregate and benchmark information to:

  • Inform practices for future quality improvement activities and service provision
  • Inform the Network for future planning of population health strategies and the quality use of medicine
  • Assist the Network in rendering for future funds

The Network is committed to assisting practices with their quality of data because of its relationship with better health outcomes

How can the Population Health Program help you?

The population Health program, supports General Practice by providing the tools & necessary training & support to enable practice to take use an epidemiological view to inform clinical and business modeling and thus improve health outcomes and create business opportunities.

In addition clinical audit tools profile the practice’s population according to age, gender, disease states and other parameters.

What has Program achieved?

Clinical Audit Tools are currently installed in 28 practices Practice Health Audits have been completed on 18 practices The Network has a de-identified aggregated Network PHA Future Direction

  • Pursue Side Bar opportunities
  • Continue to expand current base and evaluate progress at 2 years
  • Consistently seek opportunities to tie Pop. health to New Health Reform