accelerating evidence-based action in cancer control and facilitating virtual collaboration in...

Accelerating Evidence-based Action in Cancer Control and Facilitating Virtual Collaboration in Canada through Cancerview.ca

International Cancer Control Congress 2011

Workshop 4-2: Existing Global Frameworks to Support Implementation

Michelle Chong, Business AnalystKnowledge Management

In this presentation

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Cancer Control in Canada

Cancerview.ca

1) Supporting Partners

2) Supporting Professionals and Patients

3) Virtual Collaboration

Canada

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Population• 34.3 million• Growing and aging population

2011• Estimated 177,800 new cases of cancer• Estimated 75,000 deaths will occur

Current incidence and mortality rates indicate that:

• 40% of women and 45% of men in Canada will develop cancer in their lifetimes

• 1 out of every 4 Canadians will die from cancer

Source: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2011

Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

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Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (The Partnership)

• Independent not-for-profit organization funded by the federal government

• Implement the first pan-Canadian Cancer Control Strategy to reduce the impact of disease on Canadians

Positioned to:

• Faciliate and optimize the generation, exchange, dissemination and adoption of cancer control knowledge across Canada

• Reduce unnecessary duplication of effort and resources across provincial cancer systems

Coordinated and Collaborative

• Strategy developed though partnership and implemented through partnership

• Bring together efforts of partners in a highly coordinated and collaborative approach to cancer control

Cancerview.ca

• To enable and support the strategy, Cancerview.ca was launched in 2009

• Pan-Canadian knowledge hub and online community

• Evolving portal that brings together cancer resources

• Guidelines, reports, best practices, searchable knowledge bases, collaboration tools

Cancerview.ca - Supporting Partners

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• Content driven by 30 health and cancer partners across Canada and internationally• Supports the dissemination of provincial, territorial, and pan-Canadian knowledge in

cancer control

Cancerview.ca – Supporting Partners

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Cancerview.ca – Supporting Partners: Whitelabelling Strategy

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• Reduce duplication of this type of portal investment in Canada

• Partnership provides other organizations to build a portal on our existing technical infrastructure

• Removes the need to spend time and money procuring separate solution

• Activities are accelerated by removing technology development process

• Pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review• www.pcodr.ca• Launched April 2011

Cancerview.ca - Supporting Professionals and Patients

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Prevention Policies Directory

Cancerview.ca - Supporting Professionals and Patients

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The Truth of It – Video Series

Cancerview.ca – Survey Results

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• Overall impressed by:• Credibility of the portal• Quality and reliability of the information it contains

• Generally believed that the portal is an extremely useful tool for providing information, resources, and services

• 86% trust the information found on cancerview.ca• 25% reported making better cancer control decisions as a result of accessing information or

resources on cancerview.ca• 71% would recommend cancerview.ca to their colleagues• 76% would recommend cancerview.ca to their family and friends experiencing cancer• 77% will continue to use cancerview’s information and services

Cancerview.ca – Virtual Collaboration

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• Ability to collaborate virtually across geographic and organizational boundaries identified as key gap by the cancer control community

Collaborative Group Spaces

• Nearly 160 groups across Canada collaborating online at no cost

• From basic research to service delivery innovation to clinical practice to system planning

• Able to make use of existing tool to share knowledge, ideas, and resources

• Document sharing, calendars, discussions, wikis, blogs, etc.

Cancerview.ca – Virtual Collaboration: Survey Results

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• March 2011, survey completed by 231 users

Key findings

• 64% of users agree that Spaces is a useful tool for professionals in the cancer control community to connect and collaborate on initiatives and projects

• Based on experience, top 3 benefits professionals can gain from using Spaces to collaborate include:

1) Less duplication of work (62%)

2) Increase in knowledge of current best practice (57%)

3) Greater efficiency in building or capturing new knowledge (51%)

Cancerview.ca – Virtual Collaboration: Survey Results

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• Top used features include:• Document sharing (85%)• Event Calendars (40%)• Discussions (31%)• Announcements (31%)

• Overall:• 61% of users agreed that they will continue to use Collaborative Group Spaces

to collaborate virtually with colleagues on initiatives and projects• 56% of users agreed that they would recommend the use of Collaborative

Group Spaces to other groups in the cancer control community

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Thank you

www.cancerview.ca

Contact

Michelle Chong

Business Analyst, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer

michelle.chong@partnershipagainstcancer.ca