October 2025

In this issue: Team-Based Care | Enhanced Access Training | AI Trailblazers| plus more!

Team-Based Care Webinar Series

It’s no secret! Team-based care improves patient health outcomes, access and quality of care. For providers it reduces burnout, improves job satisfaction and more! ACTT can help you learn to better integrate teams, with new webinar topics for different care settings, whether you're leading a health care team or working within one.
 

• The Power of Teams: Navigating Scopes of Practice in Health Care Teams 
  Join Dr. Janet Craig, Dr. Lori Montgomery and ACTT Senior Consultant, Cheryl San Juan to explore the complex task of navigating scopes of practice across disciplines within health care teams. Get practical insights and tools to help you collaborate with confidence, reduce medico-legal liability risk, and strengthen team performance. Understanding how scopes of practice intersect is key to safter, more effective care. Register now for Wednesday October. 29 at 7:30 a.m.

• The Art of Communication in Health Care: Building Stronger Teams
  Discuss communication barriers and learn frameworks and tools to address them during this interactive workshop that explores the foundational building blocks of communication optimization in heath care team settings. Explore the "Experience Cube", developed by Gervase Bushe, to help you communicate effective feedback to team members. Two sessions are available. Register today for Monday, November 3 at 6 p.m. or Tuesday, November 25 at 6 p.m.

Looking to improve patient access to care? Check out ACTT’s Enhanced Access Training 

With two distinct curriculums on Learn@AMA, for primary care and for specialists and teams with a caseload, this newly updated on-demand training will help address factors contributing to delays in patients’ access to care, improve patient care and increase provider satisfaction. Start your learning today.

Digital Health Innovation Session #2 - Idea to Impact: AI Trailblazers

Join Dr. Trevor Day, family physician and ACTT physician lead, as he hosts a compelling conversation with three clinicians who are pioneering AI use in health care. This session will spotlight practical applications of innovative and high-impact tools designed to reduce administrative burden and improve patient care.
Learn more about the speakers and register now to join us on Thursday, December 4 at 7 p.m.

Operation CPAR Conflicts: The Final Webinar Frontier - Recording Available

Catch-up on the official launch of the new Alberta-wide initiative, Operation CPAR Conflicts: The Final Panel Frontier. The webinar recording offers strategies to reduce Conflict Rates, closing a critical gap in continuity and improving outcomes for patients, your practice and the broader health system. Watch now!

PPIP Action Plan for CPAR Conflicts 

Working to reduce CPAR conflicts can serve as a College of Physicians & Surgeons (CPSA) Standards of Practice (Continuity of Care) or a Practice-Driven Quality Improvement Physician Practice Improvement Program (PPIP) requirement.

Download a Sample PPIP Action Plan and join your peers in increasing action across the province to address CPAR conflicts. 

Explore the AMA-ACTT Resource Centre to find tools designed to help physician practices and health care teams excel.

Highlighting dedicated ACTT Physician Leads (APL) and their contributions to advancing health care.  

Dr. Marc Shaw

General Surgery

Grande Prairie

Get to know ACTT Physician Lead, Dr. Marc Shaw, a marathon runner who helps his colleagues integrate technology in their practices.

ACTT has the “prescription” for meeting your PPIP requirements

Did you know? Our webinars are facilitated by your physician peers who are familiar with the CPSA Physician Practice Improvement Program (PPIP) requirements. We have added nine new sessions dates with a variety of topics from now through December. Check out one of the free webinars today and sign up to be notified when new dates are announced.

Reducing Panel Conflicts

It is time to optimize! The next step in Community Information Integration & Central Patient Attachment Registry work is reducing Panel Conflicts. Check out the Provincial CPAR Conflicts Overview report for a look at progress across Alberta.

Learn more about Panel Conflicts and take action to resolve with ACTT's CII/CPAR Team Toolkits.

You’re Invited: Connect Care Conversation with Prescribers

Results of past Specialty Care Alliance and Alberta Health Services surveys have been instrumental in driving positive change in Connect Care and more progress is ahead!

Join SCA and AHS for an online conversation on October 9 at 5 p.m. to share your concerns, hear about the changes made since the 2023 surveys and learn about the action plan for Connect Care optimization based on the new 2025 survey results.

Accelerating Change Transformation Team (ACTT)

Supporting Alberta physicians and teams to create a high-performing health system.
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