RISE - Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange

RISE provides implementation supports for Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) and their Primary-Care Networks (PCNs). In our early years, we were particularly focused on supporting OHTs to use a population-health management approach to equitably move the needle on quadruple-aim metrics, initially for OHTs’ priority populations and more recently for those living with heart failure, COPD and other conditions that are the focus of integrated clinical pathways. The long-term goal has always been equitably improving quadruple-aim metrics for OHTs’ entire attributed population. In those early years we were also focused on supporting OHTs to learn and improve rapidly in putting in place each of the eight OHT building blocks, which correspond to the OHT requirements in the ministry’s original guidance document.

In the current fiscal year, RISE will focus much its coaching and other implementation supports on Primary-Care Network (PCN) enablement and primary-care (PC) clinical leadership. In particular RISE will help to advance PCNs, support Clinical Leads (particularly with enhancing and leveraging their leadership capabilities), and communicate and engage with PC clinicians to advance provincial clinical support priorities, all while continuing to focus over the long term on clinical improvement using a population-health management approach. RISE will be pivoting its peer sharing and learning series accordingly, as well as convening regional group coaching sessions for multiple PCNs in each region. We will continue with the RISE-facilitated PC shared space and the RISE PC problem-solving space, both on Quorum.

RISE is also convening a time-limited support team to support data sharing and privacy as a means to an end of supporting integrated-care deliverables. Such deliverables include increasing participation in cancer screening and advancing chronic disease prevention and management (CDPM) activities. RISE has already worked with several members of this support team to create an OHT data-sharing agreement (DSA) toolkit and a capability self-assessment survey. RISE will add additional implementation supports over time, such as a workshop training series, an OHT privacy toolkit, and a community of practice (on Quorum).

RISE will continue to support the use a learning health system (LHS) approach in all of this work. We have now made relevant resources, such as the LHS action framework and our nano and pico courses, easier to find through this dedicated gateway on our website.

To dive a bit deeper into the RISE supports that are already available, hover over the ‘Access resources’ menu and then click on one of the available options.

To learn from Ontario Health Team (OHT) leaders, members of the OHT Central Program of Supports, and other health-system partners, make use of the OHT supports events calendar.

RISE will soon offer an opportunity to pilot our AI bot. 

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Not finding what you are looking? Please consider checking out other websites in our family of sites, including:

• Evidence-Support Network for Canada (ESN-CA) if you are looking for timely, demand-driven evidence support
• McMaster Health Forum if you are seeking help to:
  • learn how to make decisions based on the best available research evidence
  • find global evidence through the Forum’s own products that it considers to be global public goods and the best available sources of pre-appraised, synthesized research evidence, namely as Health Systems Evidence and Social Systems Evidence
  •  find domestic evidence through the Forum’s own products that contextualize the evidence for a specific Canadian jurisdiction
  • spark action through stakeholder dialogues, citizen panels and more
  • leverage networks, such as RISE and ESN-CA (for which the Forum serves as secretariat), in order to collaboratively address critical health- and social-system challenges.