Team-Based Care: Making it a reality for all
The AFHTO 2023 Conference program is built around 4 core themes.
- Using a population-based approach to provide care to the community
- Optimising teams’ capacity and creating efficiencies
- Organizing primary care to advance Ontario Health Teams
- Embedding mental health and home care in primary care
ConFERENCE Theme Descriptions
Download a printable PDF of the theme descriptions here.
1. Using a population-based approach to provide care to the community
Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):
- Expanding access to teams for unattached patients
- Partnerships to facilitate population-based health approaches
- Utilising data to inform population-based planning
- Collaborative governance / Governance at the OHT level
2. Optimising teams’ capacity and creating efficiencies
Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):
- Triage in a world of virtual online booking
- Focus on non-digital methods of integration including back-office integration, common clinical pathways, cross-team collaborations/regional approaches to care
- Creating operational efficiencies through digital health tools
- Interprofessional Health Providers and full scope of practice
- Staff and provider wellness
- Recruitment and retention
3. Organizing primary care to advance Ontario Health Teams
Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):
- Building Primary Care Networks- success case studies
- Integrating Primary Care Networks with OHTs
- Jurisdictional review of organized primary care
4. Embedding mental health and home care in primary care
Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):
- Increasing access to mental health and addictions support at the population level
- Supporting Mental Health Promotion & Prevention (including support for Children and Youth)
- Mental health pathways in Ontario Health Teams
- Primary Care in the home
- Increasing collaborations between providers