Grant: CCI Applied Research and Development Grants
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
$40,000.00
Open Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Enablement of Care Coordination in the Patient's Medical Home (PMH)
FY 2023-24
Summary
Magenta Health is a primary care multi-site medical practice in eastern Toronto, Ontario. Magenta Health currently serves 30,000 patients with 150,000+ care interactions each year, with a team of 30 family physicians, four specialists, and 30 administrative and technical staff. Magenta Health has a track record of fostering technology partnerships for healthcare improvements and currently uses an open electronic medical record (EMR) system to enable care coordination. In collaboration with Conestoga College’s SMART Centre and an Applied Computer Science and IT faculty researcher, this project will focus on implementing EMR improvements, updating existing related EMR communication tools to maximize value and integrations for a project-management-like approach, and prototyping a software solution for the proactive and workflow-related patient and non-patient stakeholder communications while ensuring that all work conducted is released as open-source and submitted for integration into the OpenOSCAR project so that other organizations can access these innovative functional improvements. It is expected that through the deployment of this software and these research objectives, Magenta Health will improve physician/provider retention and recruitment, additionally retain and grow its patient client base, and increase profitability.
Program
CCI Applied Research and Development Grants
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
CCARD-2022-00667
Name nom
Gibbins, Tim
Department département
Research and Innovation - Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Organization id
22147
Institution établissement
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2023
Competition year année de concours
2022
Award amount
40000
Program id
CCARD
Program name en
CCI Applied Research and Development Grants
Program name fr
ICC Subventions de recherche et développement appliquée
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Area of application code
10000
Area of application group en
The socioeconomic objective available
Area of application group fr
L'objectif socioéconomique disponible
Area of application en
The socioeconomic objective available
Area of application fr
L'objectif socioéconomique disponible
Research subject code
10000
Research subject group en
The field of research available
Research subject group fr
The field of research available
Research subject en
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Research subject fr
Le domaine de recherche disponible
Field of research list codes
RDF1020301
Field of research list names en
Software architecture
Field of research list names fr
Architecture logicielle
Socioeconomic objective list codes
RDS10702
Socioeconomic objective list names en
Provision of care
Socioeconomic objective list names fr
Prestation des soins
Application title
Open Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Enablement of Care Coordination in the Patient's Medical Home (PMH)
Keyword
electronic medical record; system design; healthcare delivery; software development; prototype; cloud technology; open-source software; OSCAR; patient medical home; care coordination
Application summary
Magenta Health is a primary care multi-site medical practice in eastern Toronto, Ontario. Magenta Health currently serves 30,000 patients with 150,000+ care interactions each year, with a team of 30 family physicians, four specialists, and 30 administrative and technical staff. Magenta Health has a track record of fostering technology partnerships for healthcare improvements and currently uses an open electronic medical record (EMR) system to enable care coordination. In collaboration with Conestoga College’s SMART Centre and an Applied Computer Science and IT faculty researcher, this project will focus on implementing EMR improvements, updating existing related EMR communication tools to maximize value and integrations for a project-management-like approach, and prototyping a software solution for the proactive and workflow-related patient and non-patient stakeholder communications while ensuring that all work conducted is released as open-source and submitted for integration into the OpenOSCAR project so that other organizations can access these innovative functional improvements. It is expected that through the deployment of this software and these research objectives, Magenta Health will improve physician/provider retention and recruitment, additionally retain and grow its patient client base, and increase profitability.
