The Strategy for Research, Innovation and Analytics
(RIA) lays out Alberta Health Services (AHS) roadmap for becoming an
organization skilled at helping its people create, acquire and transfer
knowledge to raise the standard of healthcare delivered to all
Albertans. Connect Care is a key enabler. The Connect Care clinical
information system (CIS) promotes curiosity, inquiry and research with
in-system tools for data exploration, practice surveillance and
hypothesis testing.
Connect Care aligns directly with the AHS RIA Roadmap by:
Connect Care aligns directly with the AHS RIA Roadmap by:
- Making real time data available to care providers and managers
- Providing front end access to analytics tools
- Building analytics literacy and frontline interpretive capacity
- Stimulating curiosity and question formulation
- Providing effective ways to capture, translate and apply knowledge at the point of care
- Allowing innovation in care to be introduced with changes in behavior and outcomes measured in real time
AHS
builds improvement capacity in the workforce by allowing
it to use its own data and identify opportunities to improve; where
improvement is about the experience of healthcare as much as patient,
organizational and system outcomes.