EPIC News - In Case You Missed It

Issue 30 | Thursday, September 5, 2024 | Building capacity through research and partnerships

• Unlearning weight stigma and anti-fat bias
• Research Partnership Opportunity: The Institute for Pandemics
• Research Update: Chiropractic care in interprofessional teams 
• Kingston Well Baby Care Clinic: Partnering across sectors to advance access to care
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities
• Tools and Resources

Issue 29 | Friday, July 5, 2024 | Using our Learnings to Build a Bold Future Together

• Expanding Social Prescribing for Older Adults: Additional funding to grow our partnership with OACAO
• Hope and Joyous Defiance: Co-Designing our future with communities always at the centre 
• How REAC! is Drawing Lessons from Success: New ways of collaborating can support newcomers' health
• PREPARED: Helping Canada be Ready for the Next Pandemic Crisis
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities
• Tools and Resources

Issue 28 | Monday, march 25, 2024 | Co-Creating Knowledge and Co-Designing Futures

• Register now for our 2024 Conference
• Developing an AI-Powered Decision Support Tool
• Caring for Caregivers
• Reimagining Presentations as Knowledge Co-Creation Sessions
• Tools & Resources
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 27 | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | An EPIC Update

• Demonstrating Health System Leadership
• Showing and Telling the Value of our Comprehensive Primary Health Care
• Expanding our Capacity for Peer-Supported and Client-Informed Learning
• Advancing the Spread of Social Prescribing to Improve Population Health
• Conducting Research to Empower Learning and Quality Improvement
• Tools and Resources
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 26 | Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | Special Issue - Cultivating Connections: Pathways to Wellbeing

• Unlocking the Healing Power of Music
• Heart Work, Not Hard Work
• Innovative Social Prescribing
• Tools and Resources
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 25 | Wednesday, August 30, 2023

• Improving Efficiency and Access to Care: Learning Collaborative 3 Launches this Fall
• Advancing the Science of Chiropractic Care: Reducing the Burden of Musculoskeletal Pain
• Cultivating Connections: Pathways to Wellbeing: Registration open for the 2023 Social Prescribing Conference
• Tools and Resources
• Learning Events and Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 24 | Monday, July 27, 2023

• Emerging Evidence on Safer Supply
• Study: Managing Chronic Pain
• The BPSO Journey Continues at Quest CHC
• Tools and Resources
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 23 | Monday, March 27, 2023

• Social Prescribing for Older Adults: Links2Wellbeing at Rexdale CHC
• Connected Communities: Registration is open for the Alliance's 2023 Conference
• Standardizing SDoH Data Stewardship: A key step towards and equity-oriented learning health system
• Tools and Resources
• Research & Sharing Opportunities
• Learning Events & Programs

Issue 22 | Wednesday, February 1, 2023

• OHDC: Use Data to Build a Learning Health System that Advances Equity
• Get a Big-Picture View of Primary Care Clients in your OHT
• New Tools & Resources
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• Learning Events & Programs

Issue 21 | Wednesday, December 21, 2022 

• Finding Common Ground: Inuit Wellness Summit
• LHS: 2022 in Review and Sneak Peek of 2023
• Help Design our New Evaluation Framework
• Alliance 2023: Call for Abstracts
• Holiday Reading List 
• New Tools & Resources
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• Learning Events & Programs

Issue 20 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Special Double Issue

• Country Food and Inuit Wellbeing (special guest article by Crystal Tunillie)
• Clinical Engagement at Social Prescribing Conference (special guest article by Sasha Strong)
• Social Prescribing at Family Medicine Forum
• Co-Designing Guidance for Clinically Appropriate Virtual Care
• Innovation in Fall Prevention at Compass CHC
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 19 | Wednesday, Sepember 21, 2022 | Getting Better Together

• LOOP CoP: Knowledge for Fall Prevention
• Which model works best?
• Experience Report: Learning Collaboratives
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 18 | Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | Learning in community, and community in learning

• 2SLGBTQI+ Families' Precarious Inclusion
• Co-Designed Virtual Care Guidance
• Learning from our 1st Learning Collaborative
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 17 | Monday, July 11, 2022 | Working Together in New and Ancient Ways

• Land-Based Healing on Manitoulin Island
• Understanding How We Work Together
• Clinical Trials for COVID Care
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing 
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 16 | Friday, May 20, 2022 | Turning Data into Knowledge to Advance Primary Health Care

• Homelessness and Vaccine (In)Equity
• EPIC Research Updates
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• Recently Published Research
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 15 | Monday, March 21, 2022 |  Empowering Improvement for Organizations and Systems

• Six Potholes to Avoid in Quality Improvement
• Examining Health System Reform
• Register Now for our Annual Conference
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools and Resources

Issue 14 | Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | Advancing Knowledge to Improve Wellbeing across the Life Course

• Measuring the Impact of Safer Supply
• Vax for the Future: Equity, Community, and Trust
• HELP For Better Wellbeing at the End of Life
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resource

Issue 13 | Tuesday, December 21, 2021 | Season's Greetings from the EPIC Learnng Health System

• EPIC Holiday Reading List
• Learning Events & Programs
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 12 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021 

• Community-Based Vaccination Programs
• Health Equity through Climate Action
• Learning Events & Programs
• Research & Sharing Opportunities
• New Tools and Resources

Issue 11 | Thursday, October 28, 2021 | Special Issue: Alliance Research 

• Choosing the most appropriate channel for virtual care
• Using data to help prevent vision loss
• Collecting & using sociodemographic data
• Learning events & opportunities
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 10 | Wednesday, September 22, 2021

• National Safer Supply Community of Practice
• New Research: SMART Goals for Older Adults
• Measuring the Economic Impact of Green Infrastructure
• Learning Events & Opportunties
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources
• How are we doing? (poll) 

Issue 9 | Wednesday, July 28, 2021

• Developing New Tools for Cancer Equity
• Recent Publications & Presentations
• We're Hiring!
• Reading List for an EPIC Summer
• Learning Events & Opportunities
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing
• New Tools & Resources

Issue 8 | Wednesday, June 16, 2021

• Taking Stock in Taylor-Massey: Assessing needs and identifying opportunities to improve care integration in an underserved neighbourhood
• Homelessness Counts: Using a learning algorithm to identify who’s at risk and how to support them 
• Community Vaccination Promotion Funding Available for Alliance Members
• For the Children: a Poem by Abigail Echo-Hawk
• Celebrating and Resisting with Pride
• Upcoming Learning Events
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
• New Tools and Resources

Issue 7 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021

• All Our Relations: IPHCC Advances Cultural Safety with Release of Ne’ iikaanigaana Toolkit
• Cancer screening backlog after COVID-19? We've got a learning collaborative for that!
• Quest CHC First in Ontario to Receive BPSO Designation 
• How will You Close the Digital Divide in Your Community? 
• New Resources to Support Asthma Quality Standards 
• Learning Events and Opportunities 
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities 
• New Tools and Resources

Issue 6 | Wednesday, April 21, 2021 

• #SafeHandsSafeHearts: Peer-delivered eHealth care for marginalized communities
• iOAT Advocacy Toolkit: Help Support Access to a Life-Saving Medical Intervention
• In Case You Missed It: Synopses and Links from February's Knowledge Management PLE Series
• Learning Events and Opportunities
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
• New Tools and Resources

Issue 5 | Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | Special Issue: Learnings from a Year of Pandemic

• Reducing the Harms: Building Community Resilience during Lockdown
• Shifting to Virtual Delivery of Care and Working towards Digital Equity
• Best Practices for Community-Based Testing and Wrap-Around Care for COVID-19
• Learning Events &  Opportunities
• New Tools & Resources
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities  

Issue 4 | Wednesday, February 17, 2021 

• Black-Led Community Research at Women's Health in Women's Hands CHC
• Artificial Intelligence to Identify Clients at Risk
• Update on Alliance Virtual Care Study
• Learning Events & Opportunities
• New Tools & Resources
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities

Issue 3 | Wednesday, January 20, 2021 

• Learning in Leadership: QI at the CSC du Témiskaming
• Two New Publications from #AllianceResearch
  • First Peer-Reviewed Canadian Study on Social Prescribing
  • Measuring COVID's Impact on People Experiencing Homelessness
• Alliance Research Roundup: What else is our research team studying?
• Learning Events & Opportunities
• New Tools & Resources
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities 

 Issue 2 | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 

• Rapid Learnings from Virtual Care
• Tackling TB Stigma at Access Alliance
• Advancing Equity Data Collection at Vaughan CHC
• LHS Milestone: NOD-to-TELUS Migration
• Recent Publications & Presentations
• Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
• Learning Events & Opportunities
• New Tools & Resources
• Funding Available

Issue 1 | Wednesday, November 18, 2020

• Moving Forward as a Learning Health System
• Curiosity & Joy in Work (interview with Michelle Griever
• Learning from COVID-19 (COVID-19 research projects involving the Alliance)
• Get Involved: Research Opportunities
• Recent Publications & Presentations
• Learning Events & Opportunities