In 2016-17, 3sHealth developed a methodology to track quality improvements that 3sHealth and Saskatchewan health system partners carry out that positively impact the lives of patients, their families, and health-care employees.

3sHealth has a target of positively impacting 1.2 million lives by 2025. Through cumulative annual measurements, 3sHealth and its health system partners have positively impacted the lives of 1,259,948 patients, their families, and health-care providers in Saskatchewan through many system-wide improvements.

Methodology

In order for an improvement to be counted in 3sHealth's "lives positively impacted" total, it needs to make a demonstrated improvement to quality of care in terms of safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity or reliability, or patient-centredness. 3sHealth then calculates the number of patient or health-care provider lives its initiatives positively impact over a one-year period, using health system data.