The OSCAR Investigator Group is looking forward to gathering the information needed to answer that question! We have a great team of evaluators from a variety of backgrounds including health services research, family medicine, health informatics, pharmacy, and management. We are planning to look at the implementation of MyOSCAR from many points of view including the patient, provider and clinic perspectives. Our aim is to test the adoption, feasibility and usefulness of MyOSCAR including how connecting with the family practice clinic helps to improve primary health care. We are busy developing our own collaborative working relationships across our team since some of us have not worked with each other before. That in itself is a side reward of the project. A good evaluation will also mean working closely with the implementation and programming teams so that we can make sure we are all on the same page and not working at cross purposes. Our first meetings have been great and even though things are fast moving and there are a million details to work out we can already tell that there are a great bunch of very enthusiatic health care providers and clinic staff who are working hard to make the project a success. I am sure we will come across some road blocks but hopefully the team that has been assembled will handle the challenges with grace and figure out how to turn lemons into lemonade!
Lisa Dolovich
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