
4th April 2011 - The CPCSSN project (Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network) presented a paper on providing audit and feedback to participating physicians at the CADTH Conference in Vancouver. The paper highlights the problems physicians have with using electronic medical records for chronic disease management and the benefits of participating in CPCSSN. CPCSSN has developed a process for extracting data from multiple EMRs. The data is cleaned, coded, de-identified and transformed into a standard format so that it can be analyzed quickly and easily. Participating physicians get quarterly reports on their own data. Over 200 physicians currently participate in CPCSSN. The paper is available here.