Bits & Pieces: 2024 conference materials and more
Your Biweekly News & Updates In This Issue #AFHTO2024 materials now available to all members Reminder- PHIPA and Patient Records Retention webinar Feb. 26 For Us. For You. social media posts for election advocacy Member stories Indigenous Cultural Safety in Mental Health course Happy Psychology month News and updates including healthcare top election issue […]
Bits & Pieces: what does it take to care for a person after a Traumatic Brain Injury? and more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue What does it take to care for a person after a Traumatic Brain Injury? The essential role of primary care. Oct. 5, 2023 AFHTO 2023 Conference: votes are in for livestreamed concurrent sessions Strengthening primary care in northern, rural, and remote communities – deadline Sep. 25 […]
Bits & Pieces: inclusive community grants and more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue Applications open for 2023-24 Inclusive Community Grants Member stories Infant Moderna shelf-life extension, Canada investing in Long COVID research and more Join the Ontario First Trimester Preeclampsia Screening Task Force- deadline Mar. 15 Call for expression of interest: Ontario MHA Oversight Table It’s never too early […]
Cybersecurity
We will be posting tools and resources related to cybersecurity. New and updated resources will be added to the top of each list as they become available. We ask teams who develop or know of good tools to please consider sharing them for distribution. Resources OMD Privacy and Training Resources Cyber Security Ontario Learning Portal […]
Follow-Up from March 27th webinar, Qs and As from the Ministry and Clarity on PPE Questions from MEOC
This email was sent to EDs/Administrative Leads, Board Chairs and Lead Clinicians of AFHTO member organizations. Dear triad members, Thank you to all the executive directors who were able to join our regional calls earlier this week. We were pleased to hear how well many of you are doing, and to hear how we […]
Bits & Pieces: new COVID-19 guidance for primary care; COVID-19, HR, privacy & risk webinar & more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue COVID-19 guidance for primary care HR, privacy and risk management during the COVID-19 pandemic – Mar. 27 webinar Reorganizing COVID-19 resources on our site Shift to Virtual Care-Primary care response to COVID-19 Early lessons: tackling a global crisis with a community response Member renewal payments-hold cheques […]
Bits & Pieces: COVID-19 memo, changes to mental health system, AI fellowship & more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue COVID-19 updates including memo and tools Members’ stories Ontario Health Teams and privacy: a legal perspective Ontario government announces changes to mental health and addictions system Fellowship in compassion and artificial intelligence Integrating mental health services in primary care- deadline March 23 Spring registration for ECHO […]
Privacy Resources from OntarioMD
OntarioMD (OMD) has launched a new online Privacy and Security Training Module along with other privacy resources. In addition to being a critical obligation for Health Information Custodians, privacy and security training is necessary to support access to provincial digital health assets, such as the ConnectingOntario Clinical Viewer, HRM, eNotifications, and OLIS – along with future digital […]
Organizational / Operational Practices: Patient Relationships and Privacy
Please share your resources to help build our library. Patient Privacy & Personal Health Information Protection See also: Library of Privacy and Data-Sharing Resources Patient Privacy Brochure from the Information Privacy Commissioner [PDF] See also: Privacy tools for AFHTO members, developed in partnership with DDO Law Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Personal Health […]
NEW privacy breach reporting rules effective Oct. 1 and NEW guidelines to support you in meeting them
Effective October 1, 2017, health information custodians (HICs) will be required to report certain privacy breaches to the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC). The IPC has published new guidelines to support you in complying with these new rules. Please read them here and distribute them widely to all members of your team. The new guidelines […]