The Health Care Improvement Practices Registry (Registry) serves as a source of health care improvement practices from organizations across multiple health care sectors in Ontario. All practices appearing on the Registry have met the minimum criteria of using quantitative measures to evaluate the success of the described initiative.

The Registry is designed to support and foster a culture of continuous quality improvement in Ontario's health care system by leveraging the collective experiences of providers and administrators and spreading these practices so that others can benefit from this shared learning By adopting and adapting applicable improvement practices from the Registry to their own settings, providers (individuals and organizations) can improve the health care services that they deliver.

Practices submitted to the Registry must meet minimum inclusion criteria in order to be posted on the Registry. Once a practice is accepted, a classification system based on the types of measures used (i.e. process or outcome measures) and the results achieved, is applied to the practices. According to the type of activities that are involved, each practice is placed in one or more categories as established by the Celebrating Innovations in Health Care Expo.

Registry News

The first set of practices featured on the Registry was submitted from various hospitals and Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) from across the province. They were solicited through calls for submission from the 2006 Celebrating Innovations in Health Care Expo participants as well as by the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care as part of the Information Management Strategy. The Health Care Expo continues to be a source of improvement practices which impact hospitals, CCACs, and long-term care homes. To view practices, click here. Please note that you can view practices by category, by LHIN or search by keyword.

Please help us build the Registry!

If you have a health care improvement practice which has demonstrated change in your organization, and that others may find helpful, please complete the on-line submission form and send it to us for consideration. Be sure to include all relevant information as well as key contact people. Individuals whose submissions have been accepted to the Registry will be contacted within two weeks of submission. If you have any questions please email: PracticesRegistry.MOH@ontario.ca.