The DELPHI project based at the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine at The University of Western Ontario and funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care contributed infrastructure facilitating the uptake of electronic medical records (EMRs) in participating Southwestern Ontario family practices to create a researchable database built from pooled EMR data. This database is now known as the DELPHI database. This active database contains records beginning from October of 2005 to the present and includes records of approximately 30,000 patients and 285,000 encounters. In addition, DELPHI participants are asked to use the International Classification of Primary Care (a classification system that is specifically suited to primary care) to code up to five Reasons for Encounter and Diagnoses per visit for a random 30% of their patients.

The objective of the project is to improve information sharing in an interdisciplinary care setting and describe, assess, and improve the quality and continuity of primary health care delivery. The DELPHI research team is currently exploring: upstream wait times from primary to secondary care within its E-WAITS Study; congestive heart failure; data quality; multi-morbidity; and case ascertainment.

DELPHI's Director is Dr. Moira Stewart.