Skip to main content
Back to Top

Quality Improvement

MyPractice and OurPractice: General Medicine

MyPractice and OurPractice: General Medicine wordmark

GeMQIN Practice Reports


MyPractice: General Medicine Report

Learn more about your practice with a personalized, confidential MyPractice: General Medicine Report, along with suggestions to support you in improving care for your patients.


What’s in the Report?

  • Personalized, confidential practice-level data, so you can see your care patterns and how they relate to the aggregated data of your peers for a number of indicators

  • Practical quality improvement tools and resources to help improve patient outcomes and their quality of care

  • Sample MyPractice Report


OurPractice: General Medicine Report

Learn more about your hospital’s general medicine practice with this personalized, interactive OurPractice: General Medicine Report, along with suggestions to support you in improving care for your patients. These reports will enable general medicine teams to see their hospital’s clinical care patterns in relation to their anonymized hospital peers within GeMQIN.


What’s in the Report?

  • Risk-adjusted general medicine data for your hospital showing care patterns and how they relate to the aggregated data of other hospitals within GeMQIN for a number of indicators

  • Practical quality improvement tools and resources to help improve patient outcomes and their quality of care

  • Sample OurPractice Report


For more information, please visit the General Medicine Quality Improvement Network page, or contact us at GeMQIN@ontariohealth.ca.

General Medicine Quality Improvement Network

A community of general medicine teams from hospitals in Ontario dedicated to improving care for better patient outcomes.

LEARN MORE

Ontario General Medicine Quality Improvement Network wordmark

Frequently Asked Questions

The MyPractice: General Medicine report will include practice patterns about your patients:

  • Length-of-stay

  • 7-day readmission

  • 30-day readmission

  • Routine bloodwork

  • Advanced imaging

  • Appropriate blood transfusion

You will also be able to see your practice’s data in relation to the collective data of your peers in your hospital’s division. This report is designed to help you reflect on your practice patterns and includes change ideas for both you and your team.

Your MyPractice report will be sent to your hospital-affiliated email account to ensure confidentiality. In cases where the hospital’s division has requested the report, the division lead may also receive a copy of your report to support quality improvement initiatives in the division.

It will not be shared with anyone else, including other agencies, general medicine physician groups, or the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

The data featured in your confidential MyPractice report are specific to your practice and are intended to help you better understand your patients and how you can better support them.

Yes, this report can help you earn credits towards the Maintenance of Certification Program. The activity can be claimed under “Section 3: Practice Assessment” and you will receive three credits per hour. Please note that this may include the time spent receiving feedback and reflecting on the feedback.

General medicine physicians in staff positions at hospitals participating in the General Medicine Quality Improvement Network receive personalized and confidential MyPractice reports. Reports are emailed to your hospital-affiliated email account to ensure confidentiality.

If your hospital is not part of the General Medicine Quality Improvement Network, you can find more information here, or please email OH-HQ_GeMQIN@ontariohealth.ca.

The methods and processes developed to extract the data for the MyPractice: General Medicine reports were developed as part of the General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI).

To generate your personalized report, clinical and administrative data were extracted from your hospital’s electronic medical records systems and the following administrative databases: the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) database for emergency department visits; the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) for hospitalization records; and the Admission, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) system.

All data in the report are confidential and secure, containing no identifiable patient-level data or personal health information. All data storage, access, and retention procedures associated with the handling and analysis of data adhere to personal health information best practices.

If you have any questions about the security of the data, please contact us at OH-HQ_GeMQIN@ontariohealth.ca.

The MyPractice: General Medicine report was developed by Health Quality Ontario, in consultation with general medicine physicians, scientists, and researchers. These reports build on original research led by Health Quality Ontario’s Provincial Clinical Co-leads, Dr. Amol Verma and Dr. Fahad Razak, to develop a set of methods and indicators specific to general medicine from administrative database and patient records.

Let’s make our health system healthier

Join Our Patient, Family and Public Advisors Program

Patients, families and the public are central to improving health quality.


Man smiling

Sign up for our newsletter

Are you passionate about quality health care for all Ontarians? Stay in-the-know about our newest programs, reports and news.

Health Quality Connect - Health Quality Ontario's newsletter - on an iPad and a cell phone