MAP to MOTION is an online platform that will allow Albertans with bone and joint conditions to share detailed data on their treatments and outcomes with a wide network of health system researchers and clinicians.
Data is a crucial element for enabling and empowering improvements. For over 15 years, we’ve operated a bone and joint data repository that acts as a source of truth behind health care practices, utilization, and outcomes. Improvements to the health of Albertans faces a major roadblock. There’s a gap in information between the public health system, community health providers, and health at home.
It’s being top in your sport. It’s biking with friends. It’s kneeling in prayer. It’s taking your kids to the park.
It’s bending over at the jobsite. It’s walking to the mailbox. It’s rolling over in bed. It’s standing to brush your teeth.
Patient registries are powerful tools to organize health information, understand clinical variation and effectiveness, track diseases, and more. The MAP to MOTION will include high-quality disease-specific and population health data. With the MAP to MOTION, we aim to take a patient registry one step further by amplifying the exchange of information between participants, care providers, and researchers.
Everyday 4.3 million Albertans are moving and being active as they go about their days. That’s 4.3 million people managing their bone and joint health daily.
This isn’t about one condition. The scope of the problem touches across all the 200 different bone and joint conditions impacting Albertans and their families. But the information needs to be collected in a structured, clinically-significant way to have the greatest impact. The approach we’re taking is to frame clinical knowledge from these different conditions into modules. Each module primarily features a specific part of the body (e.g shoulder, knee). This modular framework is the basis for innovation and research that will come from the MAP to MOTION.
There’s limited health data on what happens in the community– in physiotherapy, chiropractic, or primary care offices. Information in private clinics, whether operated through public or private funds, isn’t accessible to innovators and researchers.
Weeks to years go by between medical appointments for bone and joint treatments and there is no information on what is happening at home, as people self-manage their care.
Weeks to years go by between medical appointments for bone and joint treatments and there is no information on what is happening at home, as people self-manage their care.
Digitals tools will channel the latest health concepts and technologies from researchers and innovators into actionable information for participants.
Researchers can also carry out studies with participants directly through the information platform.
Our story is always about partnerships and the MAP to MOTION is no different. Change in health care is an inherently collaborative process. You can be part of the community of leaders working to build the map towards active, productive, and pain-free living.
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