Better Care Made Easier.
CareCanvas is a dashboard to support practice improvement—for physicians, by physicians. Use CareCanvas to see your patient data and the system-level view of trends across various indicators.
CareCanvas is a joint initiative led by the Quality & Innovation Program and the Research Program within the University of Toronto Department of Family & Community Medicine.
Designed by family physicians for family physicians
Leveraging U of T's UTOPIAN, CareCanvas provides data for your eyes only, designed to help you help your patients.
Catch up on chronic disease and preventative care
CareCanvas includes both physician and patient-level data from the practice electronic medical record (EMR) data, with each indicator including a patient list.
Focus on what matters to you
Easy to use in your work day to assess gaps, CareCanvas summarizes more than 15 quality of care measures stratified by neighborhood income level.
How do I access CareCanvas?
To access CareCanvas, physicians need to sign up to contribute data to the University of Toronto Practice Based Research Network (UTOPIAN) Data Safe Haven—a secure researchable database comprised of de-identified patient records that can be re-identified at the practice level. These records are extracted from participating practices every 6 months. Data is then cleaned, coded, de-identified and stored securely.
There is no financial cost to participating in UTOPIAN for physicians and physicians can contribute if they use one of the three most commonly used EMRs in Ontario: Telus Practice Solutions, Accuro or Oscar. There is no limit to the number of physicians that can sign up and the value of CareCanvas will grow as more physicians participate and contribute data.
Why CareCanvas?
COVID-19 has resulted in a worsening of mental and physical health and a backlog of preventive and chronic disease care. With CareCanvas, family physicians receive information and support to help them take a proactive, population-based approach to COVID-19 recovery.
Funding & support
CareCanvas development is being led by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in collaboration with UTOPIAN, POPLAR, and Ontario Health Implementation Laboratory and has received funding support from St. Michael’s Hospital Medical Services Association (SMHA) Alternate Funding Plan (AFP) Innovation Fund, Women’s College Hospital Academic and Medical Services Group (WCHAMSG) Alternate Funding Plan (AFP) Innovation Fund, and the INSPIRE-PHC Program.
CareCanvas will also be linked with continuing professional development (CPD) to directly support physicians to take action using their data and also drive a paradigm shift towards proactive, population-based care and a learning health system where data is used to inform practice and practices in turn influence what data is collected and what research questions are asked.
Acknowledgements
CareCanvas is a collaborative effort involving numerous individuals including Dr. Tara Kiran, Dr. Adam Cadotte, Dr. Payal Agarwal, Dr. Noah Ivers, Dr. Jennifer Shuldiner, Dr. Susie Kim, Dr. Michelle Greiver, Ms. Maryam Danesh, and Ms. Kirsten Eldridge.
Contact us
For more information, please contact care.canvas@utoronto.ca.
Reference information
Table 1. Quality measures included in CareData
Measures will continue to be refined based on feedback from clinicians and other stakeholders as well as evolving clinical guidelines
Category |
Quality indicator |
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Practice demographics |
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Diabetes |
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Hypertension |
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Safe and Effective Prescribing: Opioids |
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Safe and Effective Prescribing: Other medications |
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Immunization |
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Smoking |
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Note: Equity stratifications (e.g., by age and neighborhood income quintile) are included for select quality measures.