AVÐÇÇò

Overview

Primary health care (PHC) electronic medical record (EMR) data from the Alliance for Healthier Communities was collected from 73 Community Health Centres (CHCs) in Ontario, sourced from the Alliance for Healthier Communities’ Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT).

AVÐÇÇò and Alliance member CHCs signed a data-sharing agreement in 2020 permitting AVÐÇÇò to receive an annual data file on an ongoing basis.

Statement of purpose (PHI)

The acquisition and use of personal health information (PHI) in relation to this data source supports the following purposes: 

• To illustrate the patient’s journey through certain aspects of the care continuum, including aspects not captured by administrative data;
• To explore the quality and comparability of data across data holdings, which is essential for data integration and improvement;
• To evaluate fitness of the linked data for proof-of-concept analytics;
• To demonstrate the value of structured and linkable PHC EMR data; and
• To provide insights into the quality of AVÐÇÇò’s existing data (e.g., how well chronic diseases or virtual care is captured in the DAD, NACRS, NPDUIS and the PLPB Repository).

Privacy impact assessment

Privacy impact assessments (PIAs) evaluate and address the privacy impacts of programs and systems. 

Go to the Privacy and security page to view the PIA, which contains further information about the purposes, data elements and data sources for this data holding.

Contact us 

For further information, please email

help@cihi.ca