Summer 2023 (Volume 33, Number 2)
Project Athena: Tackling EMR Inefficiencies
with New Informatics Platform
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The Canadian Rheumatology Association (CRA)
Board has identified practice and electronic medical
records (EMR) inefficiencies as a top priority for
the CRA to address, based on a series of member consultations
in 2022.
To tackle this issue, the CRA is working with Dr. Karim
Keshavjee, an expert in digital health and clinical
informatics, to identify the features of the next-generation
pan-Canadian rheumatology informatics platform
(code-named “Project Athena”).
Streamlining clinical workflows will lead to more efficient
use of technologies, reduce administrative burden,
and enable better communication between clinicians and
patients. The CRA recognizes the importance of optimizing
the use of modern platforms for improving quality
of care, increasing capacity for guideline implementation,
and participation in disease registries.
To ensure that we fully understand the needs of our
members and identify best practices, the CRA will be
reaching out for member input on key streams of the
project. These streams include EMR/office optimization,
building on the work done to date to identify quality care
indicators, identify common informatics needs for all
the great disease registry work our members do, design
dashboards and data standards, and explore opportunities
for partnerships with other specialty organizations.
The CRA will continue to contact members who have
expressed interest in providing input for this project. If
members have any questions or would like to provide
input on this project, please contact CEO
Dr. Ahmad Zbib
at azbib@rheum.ca, and the CRA will provide answers in
a timely manner.
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