The Nova Scotia Department of Health, together with interRAI and CIHI, invite you to the 2009 Canadian RAI Conference - Pulling It All Together: Integrating Health Information for Planning, Policy, and Practice - June 22 - 24, 2009 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, in Halifax.
Last year's conference attracted approximately 400 total delegates, sponsors and exhibitors from across Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Sweden.
"Pulling It All Together" will bring managers, clinicians, policy makers, researchers, health care providers, and other users of the interRAI suite of tools, to share experiences, highlight successes, and explore new directions and possibilities in health information. Information gained from an RAI assessment is critical to individual care planning. This same information when "pulled together" with data/information from many assessments and sources is a powerful tool for decision-making and crucial for guiding the direction of health care.
Delegates will have the opportunity to make the connections and "pull it all together", enabling the use of health information for planning, policy, and practice at many levels - from individual client care planning to provincial and national decision-making.
About interRAI
interRAI is an international collaborative of researchers working in more than 25 countries, with a goal of promoting "evidence-based clinical practice and policy decisions through the collection and interpretation of high quality data about the characteristics and outcomes of persons served across a variety of health and social services settings."*
interRAI has developed assessment instruments for a range of populations in various areas of health care, including but not limited to home care, mental health, community mental health, persons with intellectual disability, and palliative care.
About the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides timely, accurate and comparable information. Their data and reports inform health policies, support the effective delivery of health services and raise awareness among Canadians of the factors that contribute to good health.
CIHI-RAI Information Systems
The rich data holdings and reports from CIHI-RAI reporting systems have been designed to help managers, decision support analysts, researchers and others explore ways in which the information may be translated into action to support organizational and system-wide planning and management.
* interRAI, Mission and Vision , cited from www.interRAI.org.
Photo Credits: Photo of the Bluenose and Halifax Harbour is provided by Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage.
