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Presentations

October 30, 2017

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• Health Home to Integration (Jenney Samuelson)
• What’s your Problem (David Dunne & Paolo Korre)
• Bringing Data to Life (Kimberly McKinley)
• Patient and Public Engagement in Healthcare – How do we Make it Truly Meaningful?

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

• Are Systems Reviews Confusing? Not Anymore! (Amir Ginzburg & Paula Beard)
• Lab: Building our Future[ (Francoise Morissette) | AB Homelessness | Handout
• Simulating Better Care (Amir Karmali & Susan Cosgrove)

October 31, 2017

The presentations below are organized by track.

Conference Opening

• Designing our Healthcare Organizations for the Future! (Keynote) – Dave Moen
  • Recording
  • Slides

Primary Health – Care in the Community

Morning Breakout

• Patients Second – Preparing Teams to Co-Create Primary Care Experiences with Patients (Pieter de Vos & Jake Jennings)

Afternoon Breakout

• When Two Worlds Collide – Adaptive Leadership Methodology (Dave Moen, Brad Bahler, Maya Pajevic, Ashley Jones)

Think Outside the Box

Morning Breakout

• Improv Skill Building Session: Igniting Imagination in Your Work & Life (Kory Mathewson)

Afternoon Breakout

• Fishbowl – Breaking the Status Quo (Julie Schellenberg, Sheri Fielding, Vincent Agyapong, Justin Yeung)

Indigenous Peoples in Alberta

Morning Breakout

• Ethical Space – Reg Crowshoe

Afternoon Breakout

• Indigenous Truths – Demystifying Common Societal Misconceptions of Indigenous Peoples

Quality & Safety Improvement

Morning Breakout

Successful Quality Improvement Rapid Fire Presentations

• Ensuring Adequate Patient Pre-Operative Requirements for Outpatient Cataract Surgery at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (Hermina Strungaru)
• Use of Glasgow Blatchford Score to Decrease Admission Rates of Patients with Low Risk Non-Variceal Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Jennifer Halasz)
• Royal Alexandra Hospital Eye Clinic Capacity Improvement Project (Karen Harris)
• Reducing Unnecessary Coagulation Studies in the Emergency Department (Shawn Dowling)
• Improvement Project to Reduce Staffing Errors and Overtime Cost in the Strathcona Community Hospital Emergency Department (Susan Chesney)
• Glycemic Optimization for Calgary Hospitalist Patients in Collaboration with the Diabetes Obesity Nutrition Strategic Clinical Network (Trevor Chan)

Afternoon Breakout

Transformation Through Innovation Rapid Fire Presentations

• Amplify: Innovative Virtual Feedback from Patients for Patients (Jessica Lamb & Phil Bobawsky)
• Local and Global Healthcare Innovation Local and Global Healthcare Innovation Academy Event Platforms: Encouraging Disruption, Change Acceleration, and Health Systems Transformation to Enhance Patient-Centred Care (Jill de Grood)
• Improving Worker Safety and Patient Care through the Development and Implementation of Worker Musculoskeletal Injury (MSI) Prevention Programs (Natalie-Don Hartlen)
• Development of a Criteria-based Matrix to Identify High Priority Improvement Projects (Olumide Afolabi)
• Transforming Emergency Stroke Care through Innovation: Building Canada's First Stroke Ambulance (Shy Amlani)

The Art of Transformation

Morning Breakout

• Best Kept e-health Secret in Canada

Afternoon Breakout

• City of Edmonton: Making a Difference for Those we Serve (John Wilson)

Through the Patient and Family Lens

Morning Breakout

• Co-Designing Critical Care (Kevin George, Karen Calhoun, Kristy Cunningham)

Afternoon Breakout

• Partnering with Patients and Families in Care (Ryan Frank) – slides were not used

Innovation in Action (Keynote)

Mitchell Kutney: Slides

Rapporteurs

Braun, Brad Dorohoy, Phil Bobawsky, Sandi Oelhaupl, Sherri Di Lallo, Jodi Ploquin

CPSI Top Poster Winners

Announced by: Verna Yiu, Francois Belanger, Chris Power, Garry Laxdal

• Winners

Conference Closing

Verna Yiu

Posters

Transformation Through Innovation

1. Competence By Design: The New Face of Resident Physician Education
2. SQuID FM: Family Medicine Strategic Quality and Informatics Dashboard
3. A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Clinical Materials Management
4. Playing Nice in the Sandbox: A Provincial EMS/Midwifery Collaboration Project
5. Collaborative Care in Action within Mental Health
6. Improving Communication and Quality of Care using the eRAPID Rounds application during daily RAPID Rounds
7. Improving Nutrition Care in Hospitalized Patients
8. The Seniors' Centre Without Walls: Creating Connections through Conference Calls
9. Putting out the Fire Before it Starts - Proactive Fall Prevention
10. Hospitalist Opioid Action Plan Phase 1: Reducing Harm for Patients with High Risk
11. Achieving Pharmacy Compliance with Regulatory Standards for Medication Sterile Compounding
12. Innovative Strategies for Improving Diabetes Foot Care
13. INSPIRED COPD Collaborative-Transcendent Care of Complex Populations
14. The 'Calgary Carport' as an Innovative Solution for Risk Mitigation to Prevent Aerosolization of Mycobacterium chimaera from Heater Cooler Units in Cardiac Operating Rooms
15. Normothermia Management as a Component of a Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle at Rockyview General Hospital
16. Direct Anterior Total Hip Arthroplasty Surgery - Changing How We Provide Care and Improve Capacity
17. Rockyview General Hospital Patient & Family Centered Care Committee -  Building a Patient Advisory Team from the Ground Up
18. Reaching New Heights: The Glenrose Healthcare Improvement Team
19. Healthcare Outcome Data Utilization: From the Boardroom to the Bedside
20. Priority Setting in Developing Strategic Clinical Network™ Transformational Road Maps: A Catalyst for Quality Improvement
21. Robotic Walking: Transforming how new Technology is Effectively Integrated into Rehabilitation
22. How We Became More Evidence-Based in a Busy Clinical Environment (at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital)
23. AHS ID Program - Improving Client Access to Much-Needed Services
24. Emergency Department Real-Time Readmission Alert and Practice Reflection
25. FOCUS - ED Fostering open conversations that unleash solutions - emergency department
26. Chronic Pain 35 at the Stollery Children's Hospital: A Unique High School Credit Course for Teens with Chronic Pain
27. Improving cancer surveillance for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer survivors: Knowledge synthesis and actionable recommendations for BETTER WISE
28. Innovative Partnerships and Collaborative Practice: Improving Supportive Care Access for Oncology Patients Authors and Affiliations
29. Family Physicians and CancerControl: Strengthening Linkages Workshop
30. PFG: Upstream Dialogues for Healthcare Transformation
31. Improving Bladder Cancer Care in Alberta by Understanding the Patient Experience
32. South Health Campus Steps up to Say Sorry Really, Really Well: creation of a virtual lifeline to support early disclosure conversations
33. What do you think about Patient First? Using co-design events with patients to pick better ways to become person centered in AHS
34. Creating a Healthcare Partnership: The PFG Journey
35. Overcoming Implementation Challenges through Innovation of Implementation Support
36. Quality Improvement Through the use of Key Performance Indicators: What is Meaningful to Patients/Families?
37. Translating Patient/Family Experience Data as Benchmarks for Pre-Post Patient Quality Care Improvement Interventions: A Demonstration Pilot within Alberta Health Services
38. Push vs. Pull: Using Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) Data to Drive Innovation to Improve Access and Quality of Ambulatory Services for Patients and Families
39. Using Art as a Method for Collecting Patient and Family Centered Care Feedback from Patients at Alberta Children’s Hospital
40. A superhero that advances Alberta Health Services Values by creating moments of joy and recognition at work

Successful Quality Improvement

41. We Prefer DeCath: Optimization of Foley Catheter Utilization at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital
42. Improving Appropriate Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Medical Inpatients Using a Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology
43. Clocking The Beat – Optimizing Telemetry on the Cardiac Unit of a Regional Hospital
44. Saving Blood For Critical Need: One Unit at a Time
45. Fewer Blood Transfusions - Reducing Risks and Costs
46. Amputation Prevention in Hemodialysis Patients: Improving Quality of Care Pathways
47. $672,000/year Cost Avoidance. 1,100 Bed Days Annual Savings: PICC Process Improvement
48. Process Improvement Exercise: Urinary Tract Infections in Renal Transplant Patients
49. University of Alberta Hospital - 'Ensuring Appropriate Laboratory Ordering'
50. An Evaluation of an Initiative to Eliminate Washable Underpad Use at CapitalCare
51. Reducing pre-endoscopy pantoprazole infusions in GI bleed patients by optimizing ED Order Sets
52. Leader Rounds at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital:  'Our Patients Have the Answers'
53. A Person-Centered Approach to Improving Systemic Treatment Patient Education
54. The Spaces Between
55. Time to Start Asking: Seeking patient and family feedback when implementing an electronic medical record
56. Reducing Door-to-Needle Times Across Alberta to 36 Minutes
57. Sturgeon Community Hospital (SCH) – Emergency Department General Internal Medicine (GIM) Physician Consultation and Triage Process
58. Improving Transitions of Care: Edmonton Southside PCN journey
59. Improved Patient Flow and Reduced Patient Backlog in the SCOPE Program
60. GO-BRCA: Integrated Hereditary Ovarian Cancer Pilot
61. Improving Timely Patient Encounters and Saving Staff Stress:  A Rapid Improvement in breast cancer treatment
62. How to cut Referral Response Times by 92%
63. Development and Application of a Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle for Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Insertions and Revisions
64. Impact of Quality Improvement Initiative on Post-Surgical Outcomes: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Evaluation Study, Alberta
65. Consideration for Implementing a Successful OR-ICU Handover Project in a large Trauma Centre
66. Breaking the Stigma: Conversations about Advanced Care Planning
67. A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Capacity to Support Palliative/End of Life Clients at Home
68. Elder Friendly Acute Care and Emergency Room
69. Empowering Patient Autonomy in Osteoporosis Management: The Self-Consult Program
70. Advancing Collaborative Care and Improving Patient Care through Care Hubs; Seeing the seeds of change take root
71. Advance Care Planning (ACP) - Bringing conversations that matter to the forefront: A Team Process improvement Approach
72. Nurse-Led Group Education Clinics for Routine Gastrointestinal Conditions in primary care
73. The AHS Research Challenge: Empowering Care Providers to Conduct Research
74. Collaborating to Make Meals Matter Using Mealtime Strategies
75. A Quality Improvement Project to Optimize Asthma Care for Pediatric Patients at the Alberta Children's Hospital
76. A Quality Improvement Project in Diagnostic Imaging to Improve Rebooking Workflow and Minimize Rework
77. eCLINICIAN Implementation Assessment Evaluation: Pre, Post, and Follow-up Results
78. A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Medication Order Turn-Around-Time in a Hospital Pharmacy
79. Enhancing Patient Safety: An Inpatient Psychiatry Project
80. Interaction Design Methodology as an Innovative Tool to Enhance Hand Hygiene: The Intersection of Art and Science

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