CIHI Portal: Training

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Training is an essential part of the CIHI Portal user experience. Portal’s training program will help you work more effectively with CIHI data and accurately interpret analytical findings.

Our training program can be tailored to the needs of different kinds of Portal users:

Information consumers (IC)
Analysts (A)

Information consumer (IC)
User Definition	Examples of Titles	Types of Responsibilities	Required and Recommended Courses
Modify and reformat existing reports.	Assistant Director, Funding and Methodologies Manager, Decision-Support Services Manager, Data Management and Development	Manage program reviews and support planning Prepare reports, proposals and presentations Evaluate service levels and alternate models of care	CIHI Portal: An Introduction to Portal (mandatory, 1 hour, offered in French or English) CIHI Portal: Navigating Portal (mandatory, 1 hour, offered in English only) CIHI Portal: Interpreting Portal Reports (mandatory, 1 hour, offered in English only)

Analyst (A)
User Definition	Examples of Titles	Types of Responsibilities	Required and Recommended Courses
Create new reports within the Portal business intelligence suite that can then be shared with others	Coding and Abstracting Supervisor Clinical Information Coordinator Statistical Data Analyst Utilization Analyst Biostatistician	Interpret data Provide analysis to support routine and ad hoc program reporting and to inform decision-making Evaluate quality of service	CIHI Portal: An Introduction to Portal (mandatory, 1 hour, offered in French or English) CIHI Portal: Navigating Portal (mandatory, 1 hour, offered in English only) CIHI Portal: Advanced Technique — Multi-Fact Analysis (1 hour, offered in English only) CIHI Portal: Advanced Technique — Patient Dimension (1 hour, offered in English only) CIHI Portal: Advanced Technique — Prompted Metrics (1 hour, offered in English only)

Registration

Ready to register for an eLearning module? Visit the CIHI Learning Centre. To register for a course or workshop, you need to have a CIHI profile.

Courses available to all users

The following are mandatory prerequisites for analysts enrolling in the online Guided Practice Building Portal Reports course:

Clinical Administrative Databases: Introduction to CIHI’s NACRS, DAD and HMDB Databases (2 hours, available in French and English)
CIHI Portal: Introduction to the NRS (1 hour)
CIHI Portal: Introduction to the CMDB (1 hour)

Training for analysts: 1090E — Guided Practice Building Portal Reports

Whether you’re new to CIHI’s Portal eReporting tool and looking for practice and guidance building reports, or an experienced user who wants to refresh your knowledge of a particular functionality, this course is for you!

You’ll work through 12 realistic exercises, some in several parts. Each is designed to help you learn how to use Portal to perform your own analyses while using all of the tool’s key features and capabilities.

In the exercises, you’ll learn how to use basic and complex functions or refresh your memory on some details. They serve as great examples of how you can leverage Portal in your work. And you can complete them at your own pace.

Step-by-step instructions and videos give you guidance and let you check your work to make sure you’ve built the reports correctly.

To register, go to the CIHI Learning Centre > 12. Analytical tools > 01. Portal.

Web conferences

In January, March, May, September and November, Portal Services offers an education session via Adobe Connect. Ask questions and hear responses about data, Portal features and other relevant topics.

These sessions are called User Community meetings. User Community meetings are open to all Portal users (IC, A). Analyst users can also book one-on-one time directly following the Adobe Connect session with a Portal senior analyst for analytical assistance. (A)

No advanced registration is required for these client forums. These forums are held on the last Wednesday of each month. A notification will be sent to you, via email, two weeks prior to every session. The Portal team welcomes suggestions for topics or questions of interest for discussion at these sessions. Please email your suggestions to portal@cihi.ca.