Journal Club 08 2024
Implementation Cafe
Journal Club August 2024
Title: The Implementation Playbook: Digital Facilitation Software to Close the Know-Do Gap and Make Implementation Simpler.
Description: Evidence-based innovations must be effectively implemented to improve health outcomes, and this is often complex, highly susceptible to failure, costly and resource-intensive. Successful implementation is best guided by implementation science, but organizations often lack implementation know-how and have difficulty applying it. We developed a first-in-kind digital tool – The Implementation Playbook – to guide practical, empirically based, self-directed implementation planning in real time. Several healthcare organizations are using it to implement a self-selected innovation. We will provide a sneak peek of the Playbook and describe our plan to evaluate feasibility and use. This technology could fill a significant need globally, be highly scalable, and potentially valid for diverse organizations implementing various innovations.
Presented by: Melanie Barwick, Ph.D., C.Psych
Melanie is a Senior Scientist in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program of the SickKids Research Institute and the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. As the Scientific Director of the Knowledge Translation Program in the SickKids’ Learning Institute, she also leads professional and resource development in dissemination and implementation research and practice.
At the University of Toronto, she is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, and the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation).
Her community work includes Chairing the Governing Board for Children’s Mental Health Ontario, membership on the Editorial Board for the SIRC journal Implementation Research and Practice, and as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Health Services – Implementation Science.
An internationally recognized expert in dissemination and implementation research and practice, her health services research program spans many areas of health to improve the implementation of evidence into practice and broaden its reach to support decision-making, policy, knowledge, awareness, health, and well-being. She has considerable practical experience in implementation. Her current research, funded by CIHR, is evaluating a first-in-kind digital tool, The Implementation Playbook©, to facilitate the implementation of innovations in service settings. The paper prototype, The Implementation Roadmap©, is also available to support implementation planning.
She provides professional development in dissemination and implementation practice internationally through the Specialist Knowledge Translation Training™ (SKTT, for researchers and KT practitioners), the Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate™ (KTPC, for KT practitioners), and Planning for Implementation Practice™(PIP). The KTPC is recognized as a Leading Practice by Accreditation Canada and has over 535 graduates worldwide. Since 2004, SickKids has licensed SKTT training to the Research Impact Academy (AUS) and has over 3,700 learners internationally. She is the developer of several tools that support dissemination and implementation.
Find out more about Dr Barwick’s research at the following links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-barwick-596181/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelanieBarwick