CHSPR Seminar | Creating an Enduring Primary Care Data Asset in BC

Speaker: Sabrina Wong, University of BC

Limited visibility into patient journeys across the continuum of care contributes to a fragmented primary, community and acute healthcare system in BC, leading to poor patient outcomes, experience and access. Decreasing fragmentation in BC’s health information through federating electronic health records and linking to other data (e.g. administrative and patient reported experience and outcome data) could accelerate strategic planning, quality improvement and primary care research. This talk delves into how leveraging data-driven decision making could be used to improve health outcomes for British Columbians.

Sabrina Wong is Faculty at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and Professor at the UBC School of Nursing. Her research examines the organization and delivery of health care services within the context of primary health care. A recognized leader in research involving patient-reported quality of care, her work contributes to informing practice and system level interventions that seek to decrease health inequalities among Canadian residents, including people who face multiple disadvantages in accessing and using the health care system such as those who have language barriers and live in poverty. Her long-standing commitment to research has significantly contributed to further understanding and application of primary health care in helping to reduce health and health care inequalities.