Expertise

Implementation and change management

To support change management and assist change in partnership with and for the population and any person or organization working in health in the fields of research, care and social services.

Leverage research in the various stages of change management, from identifying the scope of the change to implementation, as well as in the identification of indicators to achieve the desired objective.

Our expertise

  • Tool for assessing readiness to adopt a learning healthcare system
  • Identify and mobilize resources to support changes in the healthcare network’s care and service trajectories. Examples:
    • Practice facilitators

Our services

Consultation

Support for applications from the LHS portal and winning teams of targeted award programs:

  • In the preparation of teams applying for grants;
  • In the implementation of projects;
  • In the implementation and scaling;
  • In collaboration with continuous quality improvement resources on care trajectories and change facilitators;
  • In coordinating the identification of good practices to support change.

Training

Deployment of training and mentoring:

  • In knowledge transfer;
  • In assessing the potential for scaling up.

Tools

Development of implementation and change management tools:

  • Decision support tools;
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  • Scaling potential assessment tool.

What is an LHS?

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A learning health system helps us put science into our practices. It helps us measure, analyze, apply, and then repeat the cycle. From practices to data, from data to knowledge, from knowledge to clinical and organizational practices.

In a learning health system, all forces come together to eliminate working in isolation. There is a partnership between:

  • Research
  • Health care
  • Social services
  • Management
  • The Public

To ensure that people receive the right services, at the right time, in the right place, with the right staff for their condition. This is called improving care trajectories. These trajectories should be as easy to follow as a recipe.

The demonstration project: an example of a learning health system

Project: Improve the ability to identify patients at risk of becoming frequent users of emergency services.

Begun in 2016, in support of the V1SAGES program, this flagship project helped demonstrate the value and benefits of the learning health system (LHS) approach. Led by an interprofessional team involving patients and their loved ones, it embodied a research continuum, from structured data collection and expansion of its use, to producing tools to support decision-making and, ultimately, integrating the knowledge acquired into clinical and organizational practices.

Three streams and objectives

  • Improve the ability to identify patients at risk of becoming high utilizers of emergency departments;
  • Further integrate the social and community dimension with the health dimension;
  • Identify the decision-making issues of individuals who are heavy users of services and have complex needs.

Features

  • Multidisciplinary and interprofessional team;
  • Active involvement of six patient partners in all phases of the project;
  • Support from most of the resources of the Unit’s team

Process

  • Systematic review, data collection on decision-making needs and modalities of integration of health and social dimensions;
  • Development and validation of clinical tools.
  • Development of the CONECT-6 tool, a tool for identifying individuals at risk of becoming heavy users of emergency services, and its implementation in clinics;
  • Enhanced training for clinical staff;
  • Optimization of the role of nurses in the follow-up of clients with complex needs and at risk of becoming high users of emergency services.

As part of the demonstration project, we provided POR capacity-building support to six patient partners, three researchers, six professional research staff members and ten members of the student community.

To this day, all of these people work in the POR field. This had a leverage effect, as several of them subsequently received training or career grants and substantial funding, including:

  • A $4 million grant over four years to implement a case management intervention based on the V1SAGES program model in ten primary care clinics in five Canadian provinces;
  • A $575K grant from the MSSS Targeted Granting Program in partnership with the Unit and the FRQ-S;
  • Continuation of the demonstration project. The team is working on the development of a series of online training sessions for clinical teams. In addition, it is aiming to scale up the V1SAGES approach to other clinical institutions in Québec.

Julie Godbout, Nurse, V1SAGES team case manager

Being a case manager has radically changed my relationship with clients. I used to see myself a bit like a teacher who provided knowledge to patients who just had to follow my advice and recommendations, because it was the right thing to do to be healthy! […] Now, I see myself as a resource, partner and coach.

Of course we have knowledge to pass on to patients, but they are ultimately responsible for making decisions about their lives and health. […] The case manager is there to support them, offer services, help them make decisions and navigate the health care system. They allow for a more thorough assessment of the individual’s needs.

Case management has also allowed me to develop relationships with other professionals and community resources, to better understand their roles and when and how to contact them when needed.

[…] Now when they have a patient with complex needs or a difficult situation, their instinct is to talk to other professionals. A co-development group was even set up to provide a forum to discuss these situations. Concrete solutions and concerted actions have emerged. Now that I’m replacing people in other fields, I miss these meetings.

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Deliverables and tools

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Publications

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Québec's health system

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When you apply for support from the Unité de soutien SSA Québec, you are taking part in the emergence of a learning health system (LHS). We offer three types of support: training, consultation and tools.

Team

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Coordination – Change Management

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Anik Giguère

Decision-making tools

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Denis Chênevert

Scientific Comanagement – Axis Change Management

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France Légaré

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