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Digital health toolbox webinar Nov. 28
The current healthcare landscape poses pressure to modernize health care delivery, striving for an integrated, higher-quality patient-centred model.
Digital health tools, when designed, deployed and maintained to meet user needs, play an important role in enhancing patient and provider experience, and unlocking opportunities for a greater understanding of patient population and the delivery of proactive care, while optimizing the use of resources.
The Digital Health Toolbox: Enabling High-Performance Teams in The Delivery of Integrated, Patient-Centred Care webinar on Nov. 28 features speakers from the eHealth Centre of Excellence (eCE), who will highlight different tools and how they can be meaningfully used in the delivery of care, including eReferrals and CDPM support. Register today.
Increasing access to patients through virtual care visits webinar Dec. 10
Minto Mapleton FHT is a small team that has set an example of how to use multi digital solutions to increase rural patient centred care. They currently use digital tools such as e-faxing, Ocean tablets, Telus apps and much more to increase office efficiency. They are taking advantage of OTN tools and are ranked 4th out of 125 FHTs in the use of eVisits with the most referrals for respirology and psychiatry. They have also piloted the eHealth Centre for Excellence Virtual Care initiative that allows patients remote access to visits.
Peterborough FHT has been supporting unattached patients since August 2018 through their Virtual Care Clinic (VCC) in Peterborough and a NP-run PFHT Clinic in Lakefield that supports rural unattached patients and seasonal visitors. Along with access to the VCC & PFHT Clinics, PFHT has opened their group programs and services to these patients who can now register online without a referral from a primary care provider thereby removing unnecessary barriers.
Join this webinar on December 10, 2019 to learn more about their innovative digital health programs.
Members’ stories
Chatham-Kent, Thamesview and Tilsbury District FHTs– Chatham-Kent’s Physician Recruitment and Retention Task Force to bring more doctors to the area
Central Lambton FHT – connecting care at the Central Lambton Family Health Team
Inner City FHT – New program transitions individuals living with HIV/AIDS out of Toronto’s emergency shelter system
Summerville FHT – Summerville FHT Strategic Plan 2019-2022
QIDS-ESSENTIAL: the making & meaning of the Quality Improvement Decision Support program
As the QIDS program turned five last fall, the QIDS Secretariat within AFHTO decided that the milestone merited not just another report or case study but a different kind of account, one that would capture the QIDS journey with a wider lens, from both a philosophical and practice perspective. QIDS-Essential: The Making and Meaning of the Quality Improvement Decision Support (QIDS) Program is the result.
Happy Nurse Practitioner Week
Happy Nurse Practitioner Week to all the NPs working in primary care teams across Ontario!
Thank you for your hard work, your dedication to your patients and your teams. Please take some time this week to reflect on the work that you do and know that you make a difference in the lives of your patients and your communities.
To celebrate this important week, the NPAO has developed a NP Week Toolkit.
Primary Care Virtual Community
Next webinar: Nov. 21, 2019 | 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The Primary Care Virtual Community (PCVC) is a collaboration designed to support the front-line practitioner experience of the Quadruple Aim. The PCVC has been developed by AFHTO and the Ontario College of Family Physicians and is facilitated through The Change Foundation.
The upcoming webinar will continue a dialogue on 10 Ontario-based “High Impact Actions,” which have been co-defined by the Community, and offer examples of how these actions may already be enabling meaningful improvement in primary care.
Join the community now and be a part of this important conversation!
A webcast for IHPs: OHTs and health system transformation, Nov. 14, 2019
Please join us on from 12 PM to 1:30 PM for an overview of OHTs, and to hear from teams proceeding to full application whose OHT development has included close collaboration with IHPs. They will speak to their work to date and highlight how IHPs are engaged. All members are encouraged to join (not just IHPs!)
Register today!
Health Justice Tuesdays – Health and Human Rights Law, Nov. 19, 2019
Register for the last Health Justice Tuesday session held by one of our members, St Michael’s Hospital Academic FHT. Learn more here.
Cyber Security and Data Breaches- How Vulnerable are you? Nov. 20, 2019
The next Financial Webinar Series webcast co-hosted by AFHTO and Grant Thornton LLP is right around the corner. Join us for an hour on data, cyber security and policies and procedures to mitigate possible issues. Register today!
Digital health and technology in integrated care, Nov. 20, 2019
The next session of the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Canada Virtual Community. Find out more here.
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