With a busy office schedule providing full service medical care to their patients in the suburban community of Fort Langley and at Langley Memorial Hospital, a group of seven physicians have all either completed, or are close to completing, PSP's panel management process.
Watch the 90-second video below about how an Abbotsford family doctor and his MOA are using their data for proactive care and practice improvements, including:
Team-based care offers many benefits for family doctors throughout BC. Having access to other health care providers to help with patient care can free up doctors to the work they love to do, including to focus on medical diagnoses and patient relationships, while ensuring patients get timely access to continuous, coordinated primary care.
The GPSC is assisting doctors to both optimize and enhance patient care through participation in team-based care opportunities as they start to expand across BC. Tools and supports include:
Dozens of participants continue to join the GPSC and SGP’s three-part billing webinars for new-to-practice and new to-BC GPs. First presented in winter 2019, the three-part series is now being offered again in the spring. Click here for details.
The fulsome discussions and engagement have been distilled as summaries that compile the questions and answers discussed:
Doctors of BC members are invited to attend the 2019 annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday, May 31, 2019 at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre (UBC Campus, 6163 University Blvd, Vancouver). The AGM will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Jack Poole Hall, with onsite registration available from 3:15 p.m. onwards, for members in good standing.
In response to the overwhelming amount of interest in the billing webinar series for new-to-practice GPs earlier this year, the GPSC and SGP are pleased to present their three-part series again in the spring.
For this series, a new-to-practice GP is:
Optimized EMR data enables doctors to identify and respond to patients’ chronic and preventative care needs, and is foundational in the transition to the patient medical home (PMH) and the creation of primary care networks (PCN).
The Gabriola Community Health Centre is a true success story of a community coming together to wrap care around local patients. Gabriola Islanders banded together to identify gaps in care, build new clinic space to house doctors and other health care services, and then staff the clinic with a team of health care professionals who work together to ensure that Gabriolans have seamless access to primary and secondary care without needing to leave the island.
The GPSC's Doctors Technology Office (DTO) has released two new resources outlining the provincial strategy and interim solutions to help alleviate some of the issues with EMR forms.
Providing care for vulnerable populations with complex cases including mental health issues is at the heart of Dr Lawrence Yang’s practice. While drawn to this kind of practice, Dr Yang was burning out by carrying the pressures of other people’s emotions. He knew he needed help managing his own anxiety, and he first turned to the GPSC’s Practice Support Program (PSP). Through PSP services and supports, Dr Yang was connected to hundreds of colleagues across the province.