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EPIC News, the e-newsletter of the Alliance's Learning Health System, launched on November 18, 2020. Links to back issues and a list of ther contents will be posted here.

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

Issue 30 | Thursday, September 5, 2024 | Building capacity through research and partnerships (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 29 | Friday, July 5, 2024 | Using our Learnings to Build a Bold Future Together (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 28 | Monday, march 25, 2024 | Co-Creating Knowledge and Co-Designing Futures (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 27 | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | An EPIC Update (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 26 | Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | Special Issue - Cultivating Connections: Pathways to Wellbeing (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 25 | Wednesday, August 30, 2023 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 24 | Monday, July 27, 2023 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 23 | Monday, March 27, 2023 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 22 | Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 21 | Wednesday, December 21, 2022  (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 20 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Special Double Issue (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 19 | Wednesday, Sepember 21, 2022 | Getting Better Together (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 18 | Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | Learning in community, and community in learning (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 17 | Monday, July 11, 2022 | Working Together in New and Ancient Ways (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 16 | Friday, May 20, 2022 | Turning Data into Knowledge to Advance Primary Health Care (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 15 | Monday, March 21, 2022 |  Empowering Improvement for Organizations and Systems (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 14 | Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | Advancing Knowledge to Improve Wellbeing across the Life Course (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 13 | Tuesday, December 21, 2021 | Season's Greetings from the EPIC Learnng Health System (link is external)

  • EPIC Holiday Reading List
  • Learning Events & Programs
  • Get Involved: Research & Sharing
  • New Tools & Resources
Issue 12 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Issue 12 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (link is external) 

  • 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

Issue 11 | Thursday, October 28, 2021 (link is external) | 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

Issue 10 | Wednesday, September 22, 2021 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 9 | Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 8 | Wednesday, June 16, 2021 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 7 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 (link is external)

  • 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

Issue 6 | Wednesday, April 21, 2021  (link is external)

  • #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

Issue 5 | Wednesday, March 17, 2021 (link is external) | 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

Issue 4 | Wednesday, February 17, 2021 (link is external) 

  • 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

Issue 3 | Wednesday, January 20, 2021 (link is external) 

  • 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  (link is external)
Issue 2 | Wednesday, December 16, 2020

 Issue 2 | Wednesday, December 16, 2020 (link is external) 

  • 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

Issue 1 | Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (link is external)

  • 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