Webinars
HSPN hosts a webinar series at 12 noon on the 4th Tuesday of each month.
Upcoming:
Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation
March, 28th 2023 | 12 pm to 1:30 PM ET
IFIC Canada Co-Leads Jodeme Goldhar and Walter Wodchis invite you to join our next IFIC Canada Virtual Community Session on March 28, 2023 from 12:00 PM-1:30 PM EST. This session is a collaboration between the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), IFIC Canada and the Health System Performance Network at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care IFIC Special Interest Group co-led by Dr. Carolyn Steele Gray.
In this session, we will be sharing learning from the recent special issue of the Journal of Integrated Care (Emerald), which helps to advance our understanding of the role of digital health in integrated models of care. Participants in this session will learn about and discuss key papers around co-creating, evaluating, and implementing technology through a novel training and education strategy. Participants will also have the opportunity to hear from patient partner Hilary Horlock, who will reflect on what this knowledge means from the patient perspective.
Session Learning Objectives:
1. Co-creating a human-centered integrated care pathway for a digital, user-centric health information solution.
2. Adopting technology-enabled integrated care education to address the micro-, meso-, and macro-dimensions of integrated care.
3. Evaluating the effectiveness of a digitally enabled integrated care program for post-acute care of stroke patients.
4. Discussing how this learning can help us keep the patient at the centre when adopting technology into models of integrated care.
Sense Making Population Health Management in Ontario Health Teams: A Diabetes Example
FEBRUARY 2023
Ontario Health Teams are intended to hold fiscal and clinical accountability for an attributed population defined by primary care attachment and hospital referral and use patterns. OHTs will integrate care and use equity-based population health management approaches to deliver better health outcomes and provide better experiences for patients. Doing this requires several resources including population health data, methods to segment the population, indicators to assess improvement opportunities, engagement strategies to involve community, patients and providers in priority setting and co-design, implementation, monitoring and model adjustment. This webinar reviews the challenges faced by OHTs and identifies some key resources and opportunities for OHTs to leverage assets in Ontario to undertake these activities using diabetes management as a case example.
The learning objectives for this session are:
1) To understand the (five) principal elements of population health management
2) To understand population segmentation and the transitions of individuals between population “segments” over time
3) To understand the intersection of care pathways for acute and chronic conditions in a person-centred approach
4) To identify opportunities to improve person-centred care with an example of diabetes management.
Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care
JANUARY 2023
Join us for a deep dive into collaborative governance and how high-performing integrated governance enables our integrated care.
In this session, you will have the opportunity to engage about the critical role of collaborative governance in integrated health systems from the perspective of policy-makers, members of collective governance models, researchers and people with lived experience. Dr Mirella Minkman, Dr Paul Wankah and Melissa McCallum will discuss evidence, roles of policy and practical examples of collective governance for integrated care. This is a session you won’t want to miss as collaborative governance advances in North America and across the world.
The Critical Role of Partnering with the Volunteer Sector to Enable Integration
DECEMBER 2022
Integration is the lever to enable population health and well-being. A key component of integration is the role of partnering with the volunteer sector to improve outcomes for our patients, caregivers and our population.
In this session, we will take a deep dive to learn firsthand about the role of engaging the volunteer sector from the perspectives of policy-makers, researchers and a person with lived experience. This session will discuss the available evidence, the volunteer sector’s role in policy, and share approaches and practical examples of local work that engages with the volunteer sector.
Results from the HSPN Developmental Evaluation: Advancing toward Maturity
OCTOBER 2022
After nearly 3 years of the OHT initiative, we are asking how OHTs are developing and what is needed to advance toward maturity.
Grounded in the experience of 6 OHTs participating in the HSPN Developmental Evaluation, in October’s HSPN webinar, we are sharing the key themes and findings in advance of our Developmental Report.
Come see if these themes resonate with your experiences and share your stories. We look forward to this exchange.
Leadership Survey Results
SEPTEMBER 2022
In 2022, HSPN is hosting a series of events on Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams.
How have OHTs progressed in the first two years? What are the areas of strength which OHTs can build on and where are there needs for supports?
The September 2022 HSPN OHT webinar will provide new findings from the HSPN Organizing for Ontario Health Teams’ Survey comparing and contrasting current state with results from the same surveys undertaken in 2020 and 2021.
Come and discuss the strengths and challenges facing OHTs as the teams continue to build toward population health management and integrated care capability.
Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams: Health Care Costs & Value
JULY 2022
In 2022, HSPN is hosting a series of events on Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams.
In July, we will review opportunities to measure and leverage health care costs and to create value by improving patient experience and outcomes as well as provider experience while managing costs at the population and individual level.
Join Dr. Walter Wodchis and special guests Jillian Paul and Howard Baker from the Ministry of Health Ontario Health Team and Health Health Sector Models Branches as well as Ontario Health Vice President of Value Based Care Dov Klein as they talk about their goals and supports for improving value in Ontario Health Teams.
Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams (Part III)
JUNE 2022
In 2022, HSPN is hosting a series of events on Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams.
In July, we will review opportunities to measure and leverage health care costs and to create value by improving patient experience and outcomes as well as provider experience while managing costs at the population and individual level.
Join Dr. Walter Wodchis and special guests Jillian Paul and Howard Baker from the Ministry of Health Ontario Health Team and Health Health Sector Models Branches as well as Ontario Health Vice President of Value Based Care Dov Klein as they talk about their goals and supports for improving value in Ontario Health Teams.
Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams (Part II)
MAY 2022
In 2022, HSPN is hosting a series of events on Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams. In May, we will gather for our second event focusing on Provider Experience.
Come join us as Dr Ruth Hall and Elana Commisso from HSPN review the approach to provider experience measurement and results from the Couchiching OHT.
Dr Erika Catford, Annalise Stenekes, Chris Archer and Angela Munday will share their reasons for measuring provider experience in the Couchiching OHT and to talk about the ways that they are using the results.
Come to hear about these experiences and discuss the approaches to measure and improve on provider experience at a time of great strain in health care.
Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams (Part I)
APRIL 2022
In 2022, we are hosting a series of events on Quadruple Aim Measures for Ontario Health Teams (OHTs): April is Patient/Client Experience Month.
Come join us as Walter Wodchis reviews the HSPN approach to patient experience measurement. Sarah Grace Bebenek and Sheila Koss from South Georgian Bay OHT will discuss their implementation of the HSPN patient experience survey with nearly 4000 respondents, and talk about how they plan to use the results in collaboration with patients and family.
Zahra Ismail, Director, Primary Care and Social Determinants at Ontario Health will discuss the strategic direction for patient reported experience measurement at Ontario Health.
Stories from the Ivory Tower
MARCH 2022
In March, we are coming out with our stories from the ivory tower of university-based evaluation of Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). Evaluators from the HSPN have spent the better part of the past year observing the development of OHTs with an aim to understand:
- What factors contribute to the successful implementation and sustainability of OHTs?
- What adaptations are OHTs making to improve function/performance/outcomes?
- What are the barriers to OHTs’ successful implementation?
Join us on to engage in a discussion of these questions as they relate to the development of population health management and integrated care in Ontario with attention to selected foundational elements of the OHT model.
Segmenting your OHT Population: Stories from the Field (Part III)
FEBRUARY 2022
In February, we will merge our streams of population health management and stories from the field providing real-world examples in Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) of using data to better understand where, how, and for whom interventions can be directed. Examples include the raw use of hospital diagnoses through sophisticated segmentation with pre-packaged risk stratification tools. Presenters will describe their use of Intellihealth and Integrated Decision Support (IDS) resources.
Speakers will include Darren Gerson and Holly Opara from the North Toronto OHT, Lauren Tessier from Chatham Kent OHT, and Caitlin Agla from KW4 OHT. We look forward to this conversation and to uncovering the good, the bad, and the ugly in trying to use population segmentation in the real world of OHT implementation.
Using Segmentation to Support Quality Improvement
JANUARY 2022
In January, we come back again to segmentation for population health management, building on the February and September 2021 webinars.
This time we will look at the new collaborative Quality Improvement Indicators and other areas for improvement across Ontario Health Teams and look at data to help understand how population segmentation can be used to design different approaches to improvement on common indicators.
Walter Wodchis (co-lead HSPN OHT evaluation) will present on the provincial view of collaborative Quality Improvement Plan indicators and how OHTs can use population segmentation to better understand and improve on cQIP measures. This is a prelude to data that HSPN will provide to support OHT cQIP ideas.
Christina Clarke (RISE population health coach) will share key principles and examples to illustrate how segmentation can be applied at the local level in focus populations to understand and identify improvement ideas for cQIP and other areas of importance to OHTs.
Stories from the Field (Part II)
NOVEMBER 2021
In November, HSPN is excited for the second in a series of events that focus on sharing stories from the experience of Ontario Health Teams. At this event, we focus on a few examples of teams that are looking at ways to meaningfully engage patients and families in co-design, to develop and implement integrated strategic plans, and to create robust governance structures. We are joined by Jeff Wingard and Melissa McCallum from Greater Hamilton Health Network OHT, Melissa Sharpe-Harrigan from the Chatham Kent OHT and the Patient and Family Health Council from North York Toronto Health Partners. From the HSPN, Gaya Embuldeniya, Kaileah McKellar and Walter Wodchis will also provide insights on these OHT initiatives. This event is essential for Governance, Strategic Planning or Patient and Family Engagement.
Stories from the Field (Part I)
OCTOBER 2021
In October, HSPN is pleased to announce the opening of a series of events that focus on sharing stories from the experience of Ontario Health Teams. At this first event, we are focused on a few examples of teams that are looking at ways to re-organize care and design new models. We are starting with example from central and northern OHTs. Chris Archer joins us from Couchiching OHT and Colleen Neil joins from All Nations Health Partners. Walter Wodchis and Ruth Hall describe the approach to our Developmental Evaluation and our experience of observing these teams as they develop toward OHT implementation.
How Population Segmentation applies to Population Health Management
SEPTEMBER 2021
In September, we come back to the topic of population segmentation with some insights on how population segments can be built and used. Debra Chen reviews how the Canadian Institutes for Health Information (CIHI) Population Health Grouper segments the population into groups. Samantha Magnus provides an example of how the British Columbia Ministry of Health has supported the use of segmentation for the BC Health System. Rob Reid and Christina Southey describe how segmentation is being used at the front lines of care delivery in Ontario Health Teams. Come for the content and stay for the chat. We look forward to hearing how OHTs are planning care for priority populations and choosing priority populations to focus on.
Special Event: Q&A Session
JULY 2021
In July, the HSPN evaluation team will host a series of special meetings in July to answer your evaluation questions. There will be four 45-minute interactive Q&A sessions beginning at 9:05 AM, 10:05 AM, 12:05 PM, and 1:05 PM on Tuesday, July 27th. Each session will be limited to 100 attendees, in meeting-style to enable live, face-to-face discussions. These sessions will not be recorded, nor posted on our website. We will post an FAQ document following the sessions. You are asked to select up to four preferences for session times and to suggest at least one, and up to three, questions of any nature for the HSPN evaluation team. (There are no dumb questions. Please ask yours.)
How should we be evaluating integrated care?
JUNE 2021
In June, join us for a special event brought to you by the Health System Performance Network, in partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care –Canada, and Emerald Publishing. With leading practices from the Netherlands, England and Canada, we present the latest thinking in evaluation of integrated care, both locally and at the health system level.
Measuring Patient and Provider Experience: Completing the Quadruple Aim
MAY 2021
In May, we discussed the measures of provider experience and for patient experience that we recommend for use in OHTs. We heard from providers and patients to talk about experience from their own perspective.
OHT Improvement Measures for Focus Populations
APRIL 2021
In April, we took a look at improvement measures for common OHT focus populations including mental health and end of life.
OHT Improvement Measures: Where are OHTs starting from?
MARCH 2021
In March, we looked across all OHTs at the baseline achievement on key improvement measures. What is the range of outcomes? Is there any association with socioeconomic deprivation?
Population Health Management
FEB 2021
In February, we explored the topic population health management. What is it? How can you use population segmentation to direct efforts? Where in the world do they do this best ? How can we do it here in Ontario?
How to Measure OHT Success: Evaluation Metrics Using the Quadruple-Aim
JANUARY 2021
In January, we discussed improvement measures to be used in the evaluation of Ontario Health Teams, both provincially and locally.
OHT Implementation: A Focus on Measures for Local Evaluation
NOVEMBER 2020
How will you use your logic model to drive local measurement and reporting? Our November 2020 webinar focused on how to do this and showcased the way in which one OHT has implemented its logic model.
The Generation of Integration: Lessons Learned in Ontario, Canada
OCTOBER 2020
Ontario has experienced both successes and failures in past initiatives to integrate care. Our October 2020 webinar uncovers lessons and practical advice that will help us learn from our past.
Formative Evaluation for the 1st OHT Applicant Cohort
SEPTEMBER 2020
What are the areas of strength which OHTs can build on and where are there needs for supports? How are supports being organized to further OHT implementation? This month’s joint HSPN/MOHLTC webinar highlights findings from surveys and interviews completed by the first cohort of OHT applicants, and includes an update from the Ministry on planned supports for the OHT initiative.
Logic Models for OHTs
FEB 2020
Interested in evaluation? Thinking about how to choose indicators and performance measures for your OHT? Do you have a logic model? Did you know you really should have one (or more)? HSPN introductory webinar to strengthen evaluation within your OHT.
OHT Evaluation
DECEMBER 2019
HSPN will play an important role with Ontario Health Teams in the coming years in undertaking a Central Evaluation of OHTs. An overview of the initial formative evaluation was provided at two webinars on December 17 and 19, 2019.