Ontario Health Teams
Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) are being introduced to provide a new way of organizing and delivering care that is more connected to patients in their local communities. Under OHTs, health care providers (including hospitals, doctors, and home and community care providers) will work as one coordinated team – no matter where they provide care. We are developing a range of supports for OHTs including practice guides, measurement tool,s and an approach to evaluating Ontario Health Teams.
ADVANCE Program of Supports ›
As one of the Ministry’s Central Support Programs to OHTs, our ADVANCE faculty has redesigned our Programs to support your leadership team virtually.
What’s New in Evaluation?
Click below to read our most recent Ontario Health Teams Central Evaluation Results.
What’s Next?
🗓 Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Topic: Population Insights from Patient Reported Data: PREMs and PROMs
In February 2025 HSPN’s monthly webinar will focus on the use of patient surveys in primary care. The event will provide knowledge of the international focus on Patient Reported data in the OECD Patient Reported Indicator Survey including results from Canada and Ontario. We will also highlight the use of these data to drive improvement in primary care practice settings. Additional insights from our analyses of the OECD data highlight a number of factors that are associated with patient experience including access, overall health, and income security. We will revisit the use of the HSPN patient experience survey with new insights on the association between social determinants of health and patient-reported outcomes and experience. We aim to create dialogue and discussion on the value and meaningful use of Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in the identification of priorities for health system improvement.
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🗓 Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Topic: Learning Health Systems in Ontario Health Teams: What is the current Capability? And what are the Accelerants and Brakes?
From April to December 2024, the HSPN facilitated a series of webinars on the Learning Health System. Hundreds of collaborators participated in these events and thousands have watched afterwards. You can review these events on the HSPN OHT webinar page (https://hspn.ca/evaluation/oht/webinars/). With partnerships and presentations from researchers, patients, and Ontario Health Team leaders, we have discussed 5 “gears” or actions that are required to activate a Learning Health System. Some accelerants and brakes can support or slow the activation of a learning health system. These include leadership, data and technology, patient engagement, scientific expertise, laws, regulation and policy. Join us on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 from 12:00-1:30 pm EDT to learn about these essential supports for LHS activation and discuss ways that these are being activated. The session will be hosted by HSPN Principal Investigator Dr. Walter Wodchis with special guests. For more information on the Learning Health System Action Framework see: https://ossu.ca/wp-content/uploads/Learning-Health-System-Brief-27Oct2023.pdf.
Resources:
- OHT Evaluation Reports
- Provider Experience and Ontario Health Team Patient Surveys
- Webinars
- Webinar Highlights
- White Papers and Guidance Materials
- Community of Practice (CoP)