IFIC Canada

Digitally Enabled Integrated Care: Ambition, Adoption, and Scale

By Niamh Daly Day / September 8, 2026
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08/09/2026 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm –

Explore IFIC Canada’s webinar on digitally enabled integrated care, including adoption, implementation & scale across health & care systems.

Indigenous Approaches to Integrated Community-Based Primary Healthcare

By Niamh Daly Day / June 9, 2026
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09/06/2026 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

Catch up on this IFIC Canada webinar exploring Indigenous approaches to holistic, community-based and integrated primary healthcare.

NACIC27 North American Conference on Integrated Care, Toronto, Canada

By Admin / October 13, 2027
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13/10/2027 – 15/10/2027 @ 12:00 am –

NACIC27 Toronto brings together leaders to advance integrated, people-centred care.

IFIC Canada Advancing Integrated Community-Based Primary Health Care

By Niamh Daly Day / March 31, 2026
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31/03/2026 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm –

This session explored how integrated primary care is taking shape across Canada, highlighting real-world examples, shared challenges, and the conditions needed to connect care across sectors and communities.

Partnering with People with Lived Experience to Enable Person-Centered Integrated Care

By Niamh Daly Day / December 9, 2025
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09/12/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

The session explored how people with lived experience across Canada have helped drive integrated care by advancing authentic partnership and co design. Speakers shared practical examples of power sharing, relationship building, and the collaborative leadership needed to shape more person centred health systems.

IFIC Canada Webinar Slides September 2025

By Niamh Daly Day / September 19, 2025
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Uncovering the Power of Community: A Missing Piece in Integrated Care

By Niamh Daly Day / September 9, 2025
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09/09/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

Integrated care thrives when health and community systems work as equal partners—yet community strengths are often overlooked. This session explored how to elevate community voices, build trust, and co-create solutions that reflect the realities and aspirations of the people we serve.

IFIC Canada Webinar Slides June 2025

By Niamh Daly Day / June 12, 2025
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Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being: Foundations for Integrated Care and Population Health

By Niamh Daly Day / June 10, 2025
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10/06/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm –

This webinar explored how Indigenous knowledge shaped integrated care, healing, and health system transformation.

Insights from the North American Integrated Care Conference: Strengthening Chronic Disease Management in Ireland

By Miriam Galvin / November 14, 2024
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Over the past five years, Ireland has made significant strides in the national implementation of our Integrated Care Chronic Disease Framework. This initiative involved crafting an evidence-based framework, securing stakeholder buy-in, and obtaining funding, leading us to commence implementation in 2020.

NACIC24 – A Celebration of Integrated Care

By Miriam Galvin / November 14, 2024
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It has been a couple of weeks since NACIC24, and the excitement still lingers. The conference exceeded my expectations in terms of enthusiasm, engagement, sharing, and networking.

Transforming Healthcare: Insights from the North American Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24)

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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Attending the North American Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24) was an uplifting experience. I had the honour of co-facilitating a 90-minute workshop titled “People Powered Health in Action: Integrating Lived Experience into Organisational Practices,” alongside my co-presenter, Lauryn Seguin from AC/HSO.

Closing The Gap- What Action Will You Take to Achieve Integrated Care

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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Many countries are making the shift towards new models of care, that are person-centered and often community driven. As part of the closing plenary at The North American Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC24) held in Calgary, I was able to offer a glimpse into when I have seen health and social care work within the community.

Inspiring and energizing – experiences from NACIC24

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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Participating in the 24th North America Conference on Integrated Care in Calgary was an inspiring and energizing professional experience.

From Visitors to Partners: The Vital Role of Family Caregivers in Integrated Care

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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At the North American Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC) in Calgary, Georgina Black, Managing Partner of Government & Public Services at Deloitte Canada, shared her dual perspective.

Navigating Complexity in Healthcare: Building Trust Through Relational Reciprocity

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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Trust in some of our largest health institutions is fraying. In every business transaction there is a minimum of two components: one economic and one relational. The economic consisting of the terms of the deal, the cost, payment terms and sources of financing.

NACIC24, a bright reminder of the hope and optimism that comes from sharing stories

By Miriam Galvin / November 13, 2024
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It’s safe to say that the NACIC24 event in Calgary served as a balm to many a weary person’s soul. While we collectively face difficult problems, this event served as a bright reminder of the hope and optimism available when we come together to share story.

A shared learning experience for Ontario Health Teams at NACIC24

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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The recent North American Conference on Integrated Care offered an opportunity to showcase examples of leading practices to improve population health from across Canada and around the world.

We make progress on integrated care at the rate of mutual respect and trust

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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I arrived home exhausted and exhilarated. NACIC24 did not disappoint from my perspective as a person with lived and living experience.Many congratulations to our IFIC Canada colleagues for hosting an inspiring conference in Calgary last month.

Radically different ways of thinking, collaborating and animating integrated care

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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It was an honor to attend the Integrated Care School hosted in Calgary. The outstanding integrated care leaders and faculty were passionate about strengthening integrated care and brought a wealth of international experiences.

Leveraging community resources to advance integrated care: Highlights from NACIC 2024

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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Leveraging community resources to advance integrated care was a prominent theme in the recent North America Conference on Integrated Care – NACIC 2024 -(https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/nacic24-north-america-conference-on-integrated-care-calgary-canada).

The HealthPathways Community: Enabling learning health systems to get evidence and policy into practice

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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The HealthPathways team had a fantastic time at NACIC24, learning from a diverse range of clinicians, patients, caregivers, researchers, and health system leaders who share a common interest in integrated care. We also had the privilege of sharing our experiences of enabling learning health systems across the global HealthPathways Community.

The shift to integrated and people-centred care is a political and social one – reflections on NACIC24

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)’s North American Conference on Integrated Care in Calgary, NACIC24 which was co-hosted with our Canada country hub partner, The University of Toronto was a great opportunity to hear about what is happening in the practice of integrated care across Canada.

Reflection on North American Conference Integrated Care (NACIC24) Calgary

By Miriam Galvin / November 12, 2024
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I arrived home exhausted and exhilarated. NACIC24 did not disappoint from my perspective as a person with lived and living experience.

3 Country Study Tour on Integrated Care 2024

By Admin / October 9, 2024
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3 Country Study Tour on Integrated Care 2024464 DownloadsThe 3 Country Study Tour on Community-based Integrated Care of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland seeks to examine the leadership and management of community-based initiatives for integrated care. The Study Tour will have a specific focus on the care and wellbeing of older people,…

Sheldon M Chumir Health Centre Brochure

By Admin / October 1, 2024
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The critical role of partnering with the volunteer sector to enable integration

By Admin / September 17, 2024
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The critical role of partnering with the volunteer sector to enable integration299 DownloadsIn this session, we took a deep dive into learning firsthand from about the role of engaging the volunteer sector from the perspectives of policy-makers, researchers and a person with lived experience. This session discussed the available evidence, the volunteer sector’s role in…

Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care

By Admin / September 17, 2024
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Collaborative Governance: Towards the Next Level of Integrated Care539 Downloads Discuss the evidence and research that supports collective governance as an enabler to population health; Identify the role that collective governance plays in policy and program delivery. Highlight successful approaches to collective governance and the potential for impact. Describe how collective governance approaches are built…

Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation

By Admin / September 17, 2024
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Advancing Integrated Care with Digital Health Innovation365 DownloadsIFIC Canada Co-Leads Jodeme Goldhar and Walter Wodchis hosted a Canada Virtual Community collaboration between the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), IFIC Canada and the Health System Performance Network at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Digital Health and Data Enabling Integrated Care IFIC…

Meeting the needs of people living with frailty: Lessons from the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre UK

By Admin / September 16, 2024
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Meeting the needs of people living with frailty: Lessons from the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre UK374 DownloadsThe NHS is under increasing strain. With an ageing population, hospitals struggling with soaring demand and the biggest ever workforce crisis, the NHS is in need of long term solutions. Innovation and new ways of working are required…

How Does Policy Support Integrated Care? International Examples, Ontario Practice Webinar Slides

By Admin / September 12, 2024
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How Does Policy Support Integrated Care? International Examples, Ontario Practice Webinar Slides306 DownloadsHealth systems around the world are aligned in aiming to improve on quadruple aim goals of patient and provider experience, health outcomes and value creation. Health systems are also pursuing these goals through the advancement of population health and integrated care. The North…

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Care: How Does Policy Support Integrated Care? International Examples, Ontario Practice

By Admin / February 27, 2024
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27/02/2024 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 pm –

Health systems around the world are aligned in aiming to improve on quadruple aim goals of patient and provider experience, health outcomes and value creation. Health systems are also pursuing these goals through the advancement of population health and integrated care.

IFIC Canada Integrated Care School 2024

By Admin / September 3, 2024
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IFIC Canada Integrated Care School 2024

By Miriam Galvin / October 18, 2024
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18/10/2024 – 19/10/2024 @ All Day –

This immersive learning experience responds to demand from the health and aged care sectors in Canada and North America to help build knowledge, capacity and skills to support the effective design and adoption of integrated care in practice. The two-day course is designed as a short, intensive, residential program for individuals, teams and local partners to support the advancement of their integrated care projects and plans in their own context.

An enriching experience that left the IFIC Canada team invigorated and inspired

By Miriam Galvin / May 15, 2024
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An enriching experience that left the IFIC Canada team invigorated and inspired The International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC) in sunny Belfast was an enriching experience that left the IFIC Canada team invigorated and inspired. ICIC24 showed some important advancement in both the research and practice of integrated care globally. A Global Network The connections…

Reflecting on our lives and future careers through a different lens

By Miriam Galvin / May 14, 2024
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Experience from the 24th International Conference on Integrated Care Before attending the International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC24), we thought of health care providers as independent healers. However, following an 8-hour flight from Canada to Ireland, our perspectives changed for the better. Our names are Justin and Olivia, and we both recently finished our undergraduate…

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Care: Valuing Family Caregivers and their Caregiving: Family Caregivers are Vital Resources in Integrated Care

By Miriam Galvin / April 2, 2024
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02/04/2024 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am –

Health systems around the world are aligned in aiming to improve on quadruple aim goals of patient and provider experience, health outcomes and value creation. Health systems are also pursuing these goals through the advancement of population health and integrated care.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Care January 2024

By Niamh Daly Day / January 25, 2024
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25/01/2024 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

Discover the multi-disciplinary team providing proactive (anticipatory) Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and also an urgent (reactive) response for those in crisis. Hear from the team that helped design and implement this sustainable model of care that is making a real difference to the lives of people affected by frailty and their families.

NACIC24 – North America Conference on Integrated Care, Calgary, Canada

By Admin / October 15, 2024
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15/10/2024 – 17/10/2024 @ All Day –

NACIC24 was co-hosted with: IFIC Canada; The North America Centre for Integrated Care; International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC); and the Health System Performance Network at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

IFIC Canada Virtual Community Care October 2023

By Niamh Daly Day / October 24, 2023
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24/10/2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm –

It has been 5 years since our initial launch of IFIC Canada at the ICIC18 Conference in Utrecht. Since then, the IFIC Community and the reach of our collective work has grown tremendously.