Use of Hospital-Related Health Care Among Health Links Enrollees in the Central Ontario Health Region: A Propensity-Matched Difference-in Differences Study
2017
Health Links are a new model of providing care coordination for high-cost, high-needs patients in Ontario. We evaluated use of hospital-related health care services among Health Links patients in the Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) of Ontario in the […]
Can Complexity Dynamics Be Harnessed to Improve Integration of Care? the Implementation of the Health Links in Ontario, Canada
2017
Attempts to understand the emergence of integrated care using traditional approaches provide limited insights. Increasingly, scholars are applying complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to explain the implementation of integrated care policies and interventions. A CAS perspective suggests that integrated care […]
Evaluating the ‘Health Links’: A Case Study of the Role of Organizational Factors in Integrating Care in Ontario, Canada
2017
Adults with multiple chronic illnesses account for more than 75% of health care spending. Many are considered complex due to multimorbidity, high service use, and psychosocial vulnerability.
Organizational Context Matters: A Research Toolkit for Conducting Standardized Case Studies of Integrated Care Initiatives
2017
Introduction: The variable success of integrated care initiatives has led experts to recommend tailoring design and implementation to the organizational context. Yet, organizational contexts are rarely described, understood, or measured with sufficient depth and breadth in empirical studies or in […]
Operationalizing Patient-Centred Integrated Care: The Gap Between Discourse and Action in Ontario’s Health Links
2017
Central LHIN Health Links Case Study Report
2017
Assessing Value in Ontario Health Links. Part 5: Health System Performance Trends in Health Links Populations
2016
Ontario’s Health Links program was announced by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) in December 2012 as a provincial strategy to improve care coordination for patients with complex conditions and social needs. As of July 2016, there were […]
Assessing Value in Ontario Health Links. Part 4: Measures of Palliative Care and End-Of-Life Care
2016
Ontario’s Health Links (HLs) initiative was announced in December 2012 to improve the coordination of care provided to patients with the most complex healthcare needs. Palliative and end-of-life populations may be of particular interest to HL leaders because these patients […]
Ontario’s Health Links: Measuring Success
2015
Assessing Value in Ontario Health Links Part 3: Measures of System Performance in Ontario’s Health Links
2015
Ontario’s Health Links (HL) initiative was launched in January 2013 to integrate and improve the coordination of care provided to patients with the most complex healthcare needs. Given the considerable efforts that are being invested in Health Links, reporting on […]