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ICIC20 – Implementation models

By Miriam Galvin / January 28, 2021
Session 4E - Implementation models chaired by Ms Jodeme Goldhar Presentations and Speakers: Building on evidence-based models to accelerate the delivery of integrated care: The journey to date for the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada Mr Shiran Isaacksz and Ms Melissa Chang Technology-enabled strategies for a fully integrated health system Dr Angelo RossiMori Read More

IFIC Canada 2020 Year in Review

By Admin / December 23, 2020

IFIC Communications team in conversation with Jodeme Goldhar, Co-Director of IFIC Canada and Treasurer of the Foundation looks back on 2020 and what we have to look forward to for IFIC Canada in 2021. You played a key role in developing the Foundation’s report “Realising the true Value of Integrated Care” – what did your…

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PODCAST: Workforce Capacity and Capability

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: Workforce Capacity and Capability Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Edelweiss Aldasaro, Maggie Langins, Antonija Balenović, Mark Taubert, Mayara Floss, Chris Wright Health and care workers are our greatest asset, working alongside family carers, community partners and local networks of support. However, without reforms, sustaining the workforce is also…

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PODCAST: Digital Solutions: Adoption, Adaptation and Their Role in post-Covid19 Health and Social Care

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: Digital Solutions: Adoption, Adaptation and Their Role in post-Covid19 Health and Social Care Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Leo Lewis, Áine Carroll, Carolyn Steele Gray, Jay Shaw, Jordi Piera Jiménez, Martin Curley, Amanda Carty, Anne Marie Cunningham As each integrated care building block is reliant on information, digital…

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PODCAST: Driving and Accelerating a ‘One System’ Response

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: Driving and Accelerating a ‘One System’ Response Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Jodeme Goldhar, Walter P. Wodchis, Stacey Daub, Rebecca Stoller, Dave Pearson, Bob Borden, Anne Wojtak, Tia Pham, Leo Lewis, Philliz Goh High performing health and social care systems provide exceptional care, quality and experiences for patients,…

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PODCAST: People as Partners in Care

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: People as Partners in Care Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Anne Hendry, Audrey Birt, Graham Kramer, Roseann Logan, Larissa Verissimo, Donald Macaskill, Anne Mills There is a growing imperative to place people and communities, and what matter to them, at the centre of health and care services. The…

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PODCAST: Supporting Reilient Communities in Times of Public Health Crisis

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: Supporting Reilient Communities in Times of Public Health Crisis Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Nick Goodwin, Ricardo Fábrega, David Perkins, Jason Cheah, Ghislaine Rouly, Antoine Boivin, Vince Barry Community resilience refers to the sustained ability of a community to respond to, withstand and recover from shocks and stressors.…

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PODCAST: Building Integrated Care as the Cornerstone of Our New Reality

By Admin / September 21, 2020

Podcast Episode: Building Integrated Care as the Cornerstone of Our New Reality Podcast Series: Care During and Beyond the Covid-19 Crisis Presenters: Fiona Lyne, Anne Hendry, Albert Alonso, Áine Carroll, Jodeme Goldhar, Helmut Hildebrandt, Robert Johnstone, Bert Vrijhoef, Jason Yap This Podcast episode documents IFIC’s special COVID19 webinar series “Care during and beyond the COVID-19…

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Atención Integrada en Iberoamérica piedra angular de la nueva realidad

By Admin / August 5, 2020

La actual pandemia de COVID-19 ha impactado rápidamente nuestras vidas, particularmente, está creando un desafío sin precedentes para nuestros sistemas de salud y sociales en todo el mundo. En este contexto todos los países están tomando numerosas me

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Workforce Capacity and Capability

By Admin / July 9, 2020

Health and care workers are our greatest asset, working alongside family carers, community partners and local networks of support. However, without reforms, sustaining the workforce is also one of our greatest challenges. Core competencies for integ

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WEBINAR: IFIC Canada Virtual Community Webinar Series – Shared Governance: Working Together to Enable People-Centred Integrated Care

By Admin / June 24, 2020

Now more than ever, healthcare systems and communities must work together to improve outcomes for patients, caregivers and populations.

Shared governance is an essential piece of the journey towards an integrated, people-centred health system; one t

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Driving and Accelerating a ‘One System’ Response: Why COVID-19 has Shone a Spotl

By Admin / May 27, 2020

High performing health and social care systems provide exceptional care, quality and experiences for patients, caregivers and providers. Pivotal to this, is how we work across health and social care as one team. The need for integrated care is a glob

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – People as Partners in Care

By Admin / May 6, 2020

There is a growing imperative to place people and communities, and what matter to them, at the centre of health and care services. The World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasises the need to engage and empower people as partners in creating and mainta

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TransForm

By Miriam Galvin / May 1, 2020

The focus of TransForm goes beyond the most common interpretations placed on integrated care. Rather, TransForm seeks to examine how co-productive partnerships that empower people in local communities can be developed through cross-sectoral collaborations.

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Supporting Resilient Communities in Times of Public Health Crisis

By Admin / April 23, 2020

Community resilience refers to the sustained ability of a community to respond to, withstand and recover from shocks and stressors. In Australia, and other countries, natural disasters such as drought, bushfires, floods, earthquakes and infectious di

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Solidarity, Health Equity and Integrated Care: Our COVID-19 Compass

By Miriam Galvin / April 20, 2020

How can we plan for a post pandemic future that better supports the poor and the underserved? Hard questions for any society, even tougher for low and middle income economies with high levels of social inequality and where the policy discourse is rarely followed by change at pace.

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Building Integrated Care as the cornerstone of our new reality

By Admin / April 8, 2020

This webinar will enable health and care decision-makers and managers to hear about the integrated care approaches implemented and considerations made to address people’s continued care and support needs beyond the public health issues and crisis man

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WEBINAR: Digital Health Enabling Integrated Care Webinar Series – The engagement challenge – getting all the players on board to support the imple

By Admin / January 23, 2020

The third webinar for Special Interest Group Digital health enabling integrated care is scheduled on January 23rd, 2020. Across Canada and globally, there is a growing interest in examining how to involve and engage patients and health providers in a

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WEBINAR: IFIC Canada Virtual Community Webinar Series – Scale and Spread of Integrated Care

By Admin / January 22, 2020

As many health systems around the world seek to shift from islands of excellence to integrated systems of care, the question often arises of how to effectively scale up and spread such systems. Within our next Integrated Care Virtual Community sessio

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WEBINAR: IFIC Ireland – Advancing Integrated Care – Session 6 – Innovative Approaches to Delivering Integrated Care

By Admin / December 10, 2019

In the last of our series we will look at population health management and Dr Oliver Gröne, Vice Chairman of the Board at OptiMedis AG will present the systems and processes required to achieve the greatest improvements in health and care based on hi

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WEBINAR: Digital Health Enabling Integrated Care Webinar Series – The interoperability challenge – how and when to connect information systems to

By Admin / December 5, 2019

One issue we’re facing in health systems is our ability to effectively wrap services around patients to support person-centred integrated care. While this requires services to be appropriately designed, digital health solutions can play a pivotal rol

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 4 – Compassionate Communities

By Admin / November 28, 2019

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/ific-scotland-integrated-care-matters-webinar-series-4#1575455585335-594ab22a-8a11

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WEBINAR: IFIC Canada Virtual Community Webinar Series – Digital health and technology in integrated care

By Admin / November 20, 2019

Digital health solutions are foundational to support and enable integrated care. As health systems around the world adopt innovations to support improvement in the delivery and experience of health and social care, we will explore the potential offer

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WEBINAR: Digital Health Enabling Integrated Care Webinar Series – Defining Digital Health Enabling Integrated Care

By Admin / September 19, 2019

In this inaugural webinar of the Digital Health Enabling Integrated Care SIG, we will dive head first into how we define the concept and what needs to be explored and shared to advance the field. In this webinar SIG leads Carolyn Steele Gray and Leo

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WEBINAR: IFIC Canada Virtual Community Webinar Series – The critical role of Primary Care in realizing the potential of Integrated Healt

By Admin / September 11, 2019

Primary care plays an important role throughout people’s lives and is a fundamental component of high-performing health systems. As health and social care systems across the world are prioritizing integrated care as a way to improve the delivery of h

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WEBINAR: IFIC Canada Virtual Community Webinar Series – The Importance of Co-Design to Realize the Full Potential of Integrated Care

By Admin / July 3, 2019

This session will look at the themes identified by the community and complete a deeper dive into the most recognized theme – ‘co-design’. We will explore the meaning of co-design and will be joined by experts from around the world, to see how it has

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WEBINAR: Care during and beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: Building integrated care as the cornerstone of our new reality – Digital Solutions: Adoption, Adaptation and their role in post Covid-19 health a

By Admin / June 18, 2019

As each integrated care building block is reliant on information, digital solutions could be seen as the cement that holds the blocks together. Albeit, the arguments for greater use and investment have become increasingly compelling, the rate of adop

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 3 – Self-Management and Co-production

By Admin / March 20, 2019

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/webinar-integrated-care-matters-series-3-3#1552564576166-f3ea391d-235c

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 3 – Intermediate Care

By Admin / February 21, 2019

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/webinar-integrated-care-matters-series-3-3#1550136761682-56de768f-448b

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 3 – Palliative and End of Life Care

By Admin / December 10, 2018

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/webinar-integrated-care-matters-series-3-3#1545038092342-4ec27721-6178

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WEBINAR: Integrated Care Matters Series 2 – Carefirst Seniors: Ontario and Varis Court: Moray

By Admin / January 17, 2018

Access webinar materials at https://integratedcarefoundation.org/events/webinar-integrated-care-matters-series-2#1515406978237-3695155d-d853

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WEBINAR: WCIC4 – WCIC4 Quality and Measurement for Integrated Care

By Admin / October 26, 2016

The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC), in partnership with General Practice New Zealand (GPNZ), Health Quality and Safety Commission (HCQSC) and the Ministry of Health is bringing the 4th World Congress on Integrated Care “Investing

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WEBINAR: A Movement for Change – Tackling the Challenge of Mental Health

By Admin / April 25, 2016

Recognizing the need for a holistic and person-centred approach, “Tackling the challenge of mental health” will lend a spotlight to a still under appreciated but highly complex issue, presenting examples from around the world of how a multi-pronged a

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VIDEO: Dr. Renee Lyons, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Canada – ICIC15 (interview)

By Fiona Lyne / April 20, 2015

Dr. Renee Lyons, Bridgepoint Chair in Complex Chronic Disease Research and TD Scientific Director, from Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation describes innovations in the design of care for people with complex conditions in Canada at ICIC15 in Edinburgh. Dr. Renee Lyons, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, Canada – ICIC15 from Foundation for Integrated…

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