Honours and Awards

HPME Researchers Involved in OHA Data Quality Conference

The OHA recently presented a conference on Data Quality: Understanding its Impact on the Health Care System at the Toronto Board of Trade. It was attended by 160 health records and data management personnel, system analysts and hospital CEOs.

The one-day symposium was chaired by Adalsteinn Brown, HPME Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Hospital Report Project.

Other HPME participants included

• Nizar Ladak, an SGS faculty member of HPME and Director of Health Services Information at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) who described variations in coding practices at CIHI.
• Paula Blackstien-Hirsch, Project Director of the Hospital Report Project, and Therese Stukel, HPME Professor, who both participated in a panel discussing the impact of data quality on research and the reporting of provider performance.
• Sujit Choudhry, cross-appointed to HPME and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, who discussed the legal impact of data quality.

Whitney Berta and Audrey Laporte Awarded SSHRC Funding

Dr. Whitney Berta; and Dr. Audrey Laporte, both Assistant Professors in HPME, were recently awarded a three-year funding package by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to examine the determinants of operational efficiency of long-term care (LTC) facilities in Ontario. Dr. Vivian Valdmanis is a Co-Invesigator on the grant. In particular, this project examines the extent to which various resident (e.g. acuity), facility (e.g. profit status), and environmental (e.g. degree of market competition) factors are associated with observed facility operational efficiency after taking account of differences in case-mix and service quality. The findings from this research can be used to inform decision-making and policy planning related to the provision of funds and allocation of resources to LTC facilities.

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