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Issue 28 | Monday, march 25, 2024 | Co-Creating Knowledge and Co-Designing Futures
- Register now for our 2024 Conference
- Developing an AI-Powered Decision Support Tool
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Caring for Caregivers
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Reimagining Presentations as Knowledge Co-Creation Sessions
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Tools & Resources
- Learning Events & Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
Issue 27 | Thursday, February 1, 2024 | An EPIC Update
- Demonstrating Health System Leadership
- Showing and Telling the Value of our Comprehensive Primary Health Care
- Expanding our Capacity for Peer-Supported and Client-Informed Learning
- Advancing the Spread of Social Prescribing to Improve Population Health
- Conducting Research to Empower Learning and Quality Improvement
- Tools and Resources
- Learning Events & Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
- Unlocking the Healing Power of Music
- Heart Work, Not Hard Work
- Innovative Social Prescribing
- Tools and Resources
- Learning Events & Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
Issue 25 | Wednesday, August 30, 2023
- Improving Efficiency and Access to Care: Learning Collaborative 3 Launches this Fall
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Advancing the Science of Chiropractic Care: Reducing the Burden of Musculoskeletal Pain
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Cultivating Connections: Pathways to Wellbeing: Registration open for the 2023 Social Prescribing Conference
- Tools and Resources
- Learning Events and Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
Issue 24 | Monday, July 27, 2023
- Emerging Evidence on Safer Supply
- Study: Managing Chronic Pain
- The BPSO Journey Continues at Quest CHC
- Tools and Resources
- Learning Events & Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunties
Issue 23 | Monday, March 27, 2023
- Social Prescribing for Older Adults: Links2Wellbeing at Rexdale CHC
- Connected Communities: Registration is open for the Alliance's 2023 Conference
- Standardizing SDoH Data Stewardship: A key step towards and equity-oriented learning health system
- Tools and Resources
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
- Learning Events & Programs
Issue 22 | Wednesday, February 1, 2023
- OHDC: Use Data to Build a Learning Health System that Advances Equity
- Get a Big-Picture View of Primary Care Clients in your OHT
- New Tools & Resources
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- Learning Events & Programs
Issue 21 | Wednesday, December 21, 2022
- Finding Common Ground: Inuit Wellness Summit
- LHS: 2022 in Review and Sneak Peek of 2023
- Help Design our New Evaluation Framework
- Alliance 2023: Call for Abstracts
- Holiday Reading List
- New Tools & Resources
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- Learning Events & Programs
Issue 20 | Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | Special Double Issue
- Country Food and Inuit Wellbeing (special guest article by Crystal Tunillie)
- Clinical Engagement at Social Prescribing Conference (special guest article by Sasha Strong)
- Social Prescribing at Family Medicine Forum
- Co-Designing Guidance for Clinically Appropriate Virtual Care
- Innovation in Fall Prevention at Compass CHC
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 19 | Wednesday, Sepember 21, 2022 | Getting Better Together
- LOOP CoP: Knowledge for Fall Prevention
- Which model works best?
- Experience Report: Learning Collaboratives
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 18 | Wednesday, August 24, 2022 | Learning in community, and community in learning
- 2SLGBTQI+ Families' Precarious Inclusion
- Co-Designed Virtual Care Guidance
- Learning from our 1st Learning Collaborative
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 17 | Monday, July 11, 2022 | Working Together in New and Ancient Ways
- Land-Based Healing on Manitoulin Island
- Understanding How We Work Together
- Clinical Trials for COVID Care
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 16 | Friday, May 20, 2022 | Turning Data into Knowledge to Advance Primary Health Care
- Homelessness and Vaccine (In)Equity
- EPIC Research Updates
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- Recently Published Research
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 15 | Monday, March 21, 2022 | Empowering Improvement for Organizations and Systems
- Six Potholes to Avoid in Quality Improvement
- Examining Health System Reform
- Register Now for our Annual Conference
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools and Resources
Issue 14 | Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | Advancing Knowledge to Improve Wellbeing across the Life Course
- Measuring the Impact of Safer Supply
- Vax for the Future: Equity, Community, and Trust
- HELP For Better Wellbeing at the End of Life
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 13 | Tuesday, December 21, 2021 | Season's Greetings from the EPIC Learnng Health System
- EPIC Holiday Reading List
- Learning Events & Programs
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 12 | Wednesday, November 17, 2021
- Community-Based Vaccination Programs
- Health Equity through Climate Action
- Learning Events & Programs
- Research & Sharing Opportunities
- New Tools and Resources
Issue 11 | Thursday, October 28, 2021 | Special Issue: Alliance Research
- Choosing the most appropriate channel for virtual care
- Using data to help prevent vision loss
- Collecting & using sociodemographic data
- Learning events & opportunities
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 10 | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
- National Safer Supply Community of Practice
- New Research: SMART Goals for Older Adults
- Measuring the Economic Impact of Green Infrastructure
- Learning Events & Opportunties
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
- How are we doing? (poll)
Issue 9 | Wednesday, July 28, 2021
- Developing New Tools for Cancer Equity
- Recent Publications & Presentations
- We're Hiring!
- Reading List for an EPIC Summer
- Learning Events & Opportunities
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing
- New Tools & Resources
Issue 8 | Wednesday, June 16, 2021
- Taking Stock in Taylor-Massey: Assessing needs and identifying opportunities to improve care integration in an underserved neighbourhood
- Homelessness Counts: Using a learning algorithm to identify who’s at risk and how to support them
- Community Vaccination Promotion Funding Available for Alliance Members
- For the Children: a Poem by Abigail Echo-Hawk
- Celebrating and Resisting with Pride
- Upcoming Learning Events
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
- New Tools and Resources
Issue 7 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021
- All Our Relations: IPHCC Advances Cultural Safety with Release of Ne’ iikaanigaana Toolkit
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Cancer screening backlog after COVID-19? We've got a learning collaborative for that!
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Quest CHC First in Ontario to Receive BPSO Designation
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How will You Close the Digital Divide in Your Community?
- New Resources to Support Asthma Quality Standards
- Learning Events and Opportunities
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
- New Tools and Resources
Issue 6 | Wednesday, April 21, 2021
- #SafeHandsSafeHearts: Peer-delivered eHealth care for marginalized communities
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iOAT Advocacy Toolkit: Help Support Access to a Life-Saving Medical Intervention
- In Case You Missed It: Synopses and Links from February's Knowledge Management PLE Series
- Learning Events and Opportunities
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
- New Tools and Resources
Issue 5 | Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | Special Issue: Learnings from a Year of Pandemic
- Reducing the Harms: Building Community Resilience during Lockdown
- Shifting to Virtual Delivery of Care and Working towards Digital Equity
- Best Practices for Community-Based Testing and Wrap-Around Care for COVID-19
- Learning Events & Opportunities
- New Tools & Resources
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunties
Issue 4 | Wednesday, February 17, 2021
- Black-Led Community Research at Women's Health in Women's Hands CHC
- Artificial Intelligence to Identify Clients at Risk
- Update on Alliance Virtual Care Study
- Learning Events & Opportunities
- New Tools & Resources
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
Issue 3 | Wednesday, January 20, 2021
- Learning in Leadership: QI at the CSC du Témiskaming
- Two New Publications from #AllianceResearch
- First Peer-Reviewed Canadian Study on Social Prescribing
- Measuring COVID's Impact on People Experiencing Homelessness
- Alliance Research Roundup: What else is our research team studying?
- Learning Events & Opportunities
- New Tools & Resources
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
Issue 2 | Wednesday, December 16, 2020
- Rapid Learnings from Virtual Care
- Tackling TB Stigma at Access Alliance
- Advancing Equity Data Collection at Vaughan CHC
- LHS Milestone: NOD-to-TELUS Migration
- Recent Publications & Presentations
- Get Involved: Research & Sharing Opportunities
- Learning Events & Opportunities
- New Tools & Resources
- Funding Available
Issue 1 | Wednesday, November 18, 2020
- Moving Forward as a Learning Health System
- Curiosity & Joy in Work (interview with Michelle Griever
- Learning from COVID-19 (COVID-19 research projects involving the Alliance)
- Get Involved: Research Opportunities
- Recent Publications & Presentations
- Learning Events & Opportunities