Health Quality Ontario’s e-Learning Modules - Health Quality Ontario (HQO)

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving health quality across the province, Health Quality Ontario created e-learning modules.

The following courses are available via machealth, the online e-learning portal from McMaster University’s school of medicine:

Module 1: What is advanced access: An overview of how advanced access and efficiency can improve patient experiences and office flow
Module 2: What are we trying to accomplish? Learn the principles of advanced access and efficiency
Module 3: Is Your Practice Ready? Learn how to assess your readiness and capacity to implement advanced access.
Module 4: The Model for Improvement: Learn the Model for Improvement and Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycles and how to apply them in your quality improvement work.
Module 5: Assess Your Practice: Conduct an assessment of your practice and capacity for collecting data. Learn how to identify your starting point, areas for improvements and begin to make changes resulting in efficiency and sustainable improvements.
Module 6: Designing and Testing Solutions: Use the work completed in previous modules to build your improvement plan.
Module 7: Testing Change, Sustaining Gains: Learn to use the PDSA cycle to test change ideas before adopting them into your practice.

Module 1: Preventing & Managing Chronic Disease: Ontario’s Framework. This module demonstrates how to use HQO’s chronic disease prevention and management framework to assess and improve chronic disease management in your practice.
Module 2: Getting Started: Describes the essential features of a quality improvement team and illustrates how the model for improvement can be used to help teams set aims and achieve their goals. This module will also address how tests of change can lead to improvement.
Module 3: Defining Your Problem & Understanding Your System: This module will help teams discover opportunities for improvement and explores common barriers to change.
Module 4: Designing & Testing Solutions: This module introduces quality improvement tools that can be used to develop an effective improvement plan. This module will also provide examples of how teams have developed change concepts and used measures to determine if their improvements were being maintained.
Module 5: Implementing & Sustaining Changes / Spreading Change: This module describes the key elements of implementation, sustainability and spread. It will also provide examples of how to sustain the improvements that have been made and spread these improvements to other areas.

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