Much energy has already been devoted to advancing the RCN's activities on quality of care indicators, data integration among the hospitals, patient satisfaction surveys, and synoptic reporting of pathology (a standard format for pathology reporting) via four major work streams;
- Indicators & Outcomes: Led by Dr. Gerald Batist at JGH
- Integrated View of Patients & Data : Led by Dr. Armen Aprikian at MUHC
- Patient Experience: Led by Ms. Ann Lynch at MUHC
- Synoptic Reporting: Led by Dr. Indrojit Roy at SMHC
Next steps:
2013
- Organizational Consolidation of the RCN team
- Development of Leadership Group
- Implementation of Oncology Clinical Quality Initiatives program and funding
- Development of integrated multi-disciplinary Tumor Boards
- Launch surveys for ambulatory services and communications of the results
- Launch surveys for hopsital services
- Identification and implementation of measures to improve patient experience
- Implementation of synoptic pathology reporting in all RCN hospitals, according to the standards of the American College of Pathologists (CAP) for the four most major types of cancer
- Expand the implementation of synoptic reporting for other cancer types
2013-2017
Mise sur pied d’une partie des composantes de l’infrastructure nécessaire pour soutenir un réseau de haute performance:
- Implement common measures, tools and IT solutions to better enable work efficienc and to better understand the patient evolution as well as create a better work place
- Refine a common Oncology dashboard
- Use Integrated information about the patients to realize improvement action plan
- Establish a synoptic pathology reporting quality assurance plan
- develop common standards and guidlines, based on the specific disease
2017-2021
- Expand the implementation of synoptic reporting for other cancer types, notably surgery
- Establish an advanced molecular oncology program for high quality molecuar markers and their mechanisms, for a wide range of cancers, through reference laboratories designated by the MSSS in the Network program
- Expand the success obtained with the 4 major cancer types to other less common cancers
- Continually share lessons learned and best practices with the Quebec (annual symposium – spring 2014)