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Navigating the Healthcare Leadership Landscape – Challenges and Strategies 2024/25
London Health Partners is offering a discount to AFHTO members on their program Navigating the Healthcare Leadership Landscape – Challenges and Strategies 2024/25, starting late November.
Discounts to member organizations are on a sliding scale based on revenue as follows:
- AFHTO members with less than $2M revenue, 30% discount
- AFHTO member and less than $5M revenue, 20% discount
- AFHTO member with more than $5M revenue, 10% discount
They’re also offering a discount for organizations sending multiple attendees; 25% for the 2nd candidate and 35% for the 3rd.
Registration deadline is October 31.
AFHTO 2024 Conference: early bird price for fireside chat ends Oct. 11
Since we just announced the fireside chat, Interprofessional Primary Care Teams, A Vision for Primary Care. A conversation with Dr. Sacha Bhatia, we’ve decided to extend the early bird rate. Until Oct. 11, enter the discount codes below on the payment page to get the lower rate:
- Members- FIREXT
- Non-members – FCLTD
- Fees are available here.
We encourage attendees to join and to submit questions by Oct. 9, 2024, to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AFHTO24firesidechat.
- Virtual registration closes Friday, Oct. 18, 12 noon.
- Virtual attendees will get their online access email Tuesday, Oct. 22.
Member stories
Norfolk FHT– officially opens new Simcoe facility
Plantagenet FHT-to offer mental health workshops at Plantagenet community hall
South East Toronto FHT– Strategy Framework 2024 – 2029
Thames Valley FHT- 3 1/2 hour drive to the doctor: Could a new type of clinic in Elgin County end her commute?
News and updates including OBSP 40 to 49 Expansion Launch resources and infusion and fulfillment of medical supplies update
- OBSP 40 to 49 Expansion Launch– Ontario Health, Oct. 8, 2024
- Submit feedback on Hypertension Canada’s 2025 Primary Care Guidelines by Oct. 25 – Hypertension Canada
- Infusion and Fulfillment of Medical Supplies Update #2– Ontario Health atHome
Bits & Pieces will resume after the conference
Although this newsletter is sent biweekly, staff will be busy preparing for our annual conference next week when it would next be scheduled. As such, we’re sending updates this week instead.
We will resume the normal schedule soon after the conference.
Update- OntarioMD Managed Digital Health Services focus groups
We’ve been informed there was an issue with the link in the Word document below. You can sign up directly here- https://forms.office.com/r/qvAZXjSwx2
“Over the last 2 years OntarioMD (OMD) has engaged health system stakeholders to explore ways to support community-based clinics with their digital health needs. Through our engagement, we have determined a managed services business model approach for the delivery of EMRs and digital health solutions that we are developing through the Managed Digital Health Services (MDHS) initiative. This is your chance to have your say and influence the proposed MDHS offering.”
Fax use survey – share your experiences to help inform fax reduction efforts
“As part of the Patients Before Paperwork (Pb4P) initiative, Ontario Health has engaged Deloitte to conduct a refresh survey analysis of the drivers of fax use across Ontario’s health system.
While the challenges associated with fax are widely recognized by organizations and provider groups across Ontario’s health sector, the survey refresh will update Ontario’s understanding of current state fax use to begin phasing out fax in Ontario’s health system.
Health care providers and those involved in the coordination of care are encouraged to complete this survey on fax use to ensure their experiences are captured and can be used to inform planning efforts.
The survey can be completed in English or French and responses are due by October 18 at 11:59 p.m. (EST).”
AFHTO 2024 Conference, Oct. 24- 25, 2024
Join your peers from across Ontario and beyond, as we empower teams to focus on patient-centred care. Virtual registration closes Friday, Oct. 18, 12 noon.
Members get just under 50% off registration. Register with your verification code here.
Policy Workshop: A Path to High Quality Respiratory Care, Oct. 16, 2024
Hosted by Asthma Canada. Find out more.
Food as Medicine Update 2024 – Nutrition from Womb to Tomb: Healthy Beginnings to Vibrant Endings, Nov. 1, 2024
Hosted by: The Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Joannah & Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition and Continuing Professional Development, at the University of Toronto. Learn more.
Sinai Health/UHN Annual Toronto Geriatrics Update Course, Nov. 1, 2024
Now in its 12th year. Register here.
Diabetes Update 2024, Nov. 13, 2024
Hosted by Schulich Medicine and Dentistry. Find out more.