What's New?

Happy summer, everyone! We have been busy setting up our data infrastructure and making plans to grow our data holdings. Over the next few months, the ICES and POPLAR data teams will start working to process our first batch of data, which will help support research studies and quality improvement reports. POPLAR Networks will also start to reach out to more primary care clinics and doctors in their areas to talk about sharing data with POPLAR. We are very thankful for the har

Happy Spring to our POPLAR community! As the weather gets warmer and we see new growth around us, we are excited to announce that our first Data Sharing Agreement has been signed! Data are now on their way to ICES from the Queen’s Family Health Team in Kingston. Our data team is ready to process this information for the POPLAR Controlled Use Dataset. We would like to thank everyone involved at ICES, the Eastern Ontario Network (EON), and the Queen’s Family Health Team for the

Welcome to the first POPLAR What's New Blog! POPLAR is a group of primary care practice-based learning and research networks from across Ontario. These networks are connected to different universities and organizations. If you want to learn more about the seven networks that make up POPLAR, you can visit our Networks webpage and our General Questions webpage. One of POPLAR’s main goals is to build a collection of primary care information from patients across Ontario. This i