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NEW: Northern Ontario Health Equity Strategy

The Vision: That all Northerners will have equitable opportunities for health, regardless of where they live, what they have or who they are.  

The Strategy: Identify and address persistent health inequities, gathering the passion and determination of a large and diverse group of individuals living and working in the North.  

Read the Northern Ontario Health Equity Strategy to learn more.  

Quality Standard: Dementia in the Community

This quality standard addresses care for people with dementia living in the community. It complements a quality standard we released in October 2016 for people in hospitals and long-term care homes with behavioural symptoms of dementia. 

Quality standards outline for clinicians and patients what quality care looks like. Read more about this program, and other recent standards on topics such as opioid prescribing for acute pain, chronic pain, and treating opioid use disorder.

Submit a Proposal for ARTIC Program Funding

Do you have a proven health care intervention that aligns with one of Health Quality Ontario’s Quality Standards and is ready for spread across Ontario? 

The Adopting Research to Improve Care (ARTIC) Program has opened its 2018 Call for Proposals and is now seeking projects to fund. 

This is a joint program of Health Quality Ontario and the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario.

Register Now: International Audit & Feedback Summit

Join us for the third annual International Audit & Feedback Summit: Leading Change on May 3rd and 4th in Toronto. Register now to:

• Network with audit and feedback researchers and experts from Canada, Europe, the United States and Australia,
• Learn about the latest research and tools for strengthening Audit & Feedback, and
• Attend interactive audit and feedback workshops focused on topics like emergency department return visits and opioid prescribing.

MyPractice: Primary Care

More than 2,500 family physicians have already signed up to receive a MyPractice: Primary Care report. Have you signed up to receive yours? For those who signed up before February 7th, your report is now available. Log-in to view your updated report.

MyPractice reports enable family physicians to confidentially see their individual opioid prescribing patterns in relation to peers across the province. The report also shows how your patients are doing with their cancer screening and diabetes testing – and how they use other health services, like emergency departments.   

If you're not already a subscriber, sign-up by May 31 to get your report in June.

We Want to Hear From You: Draft Health Technology Assessments

Three draft health technology assessments and funding recommendations are available for public feedback:

• Remote Monitoring of Cardiac Devices
• Bilateral Cochlear Implantation
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis