Implementing Integrating Care - Top-down Policies and Local Bottom-up Innovations
Implementing Integrating Care - Top-down Policies and Local Bottom-up Innovations
Panel Recording | 7 min | English
Filmed October 6, 2021
Thank you to the International Foundation for Integrated Care for allowing Health Standards Organization and Accreditation Canada to share this presentation for the 2021 North American Conference on Integrated Care (NACIC).
Becoming a learning system is an important function of an integrated care network. This requires regular assessment against evidence informed practices as part of continuous improvement activities.
In May 2021, Health Standards Organization (HSO) launched the HSO Integrated People-Centred Health Systems (IPCHS) Standard. It is intended to guide implementation of integrated care initiatives.
When engaging stakeholders in developing the IPCHS Standard (including patients, policy makers, and service providers), HSO heard that many systems around the world that given its aspirational nature and the maturity of many integration initiatives, there is a need for a process and/or tool that can help health systems identify their current state towards implementing integrated care and therefore clarify next steps for implementation.
In response to this need, HSO has developed a pilot Integrated Care Assessment Tool (ICA) informed by the IPCHS Standard. The aim of the ICA is to help systems understand their integration progress to date on a spectrum from “Co-exist” to” Integrated” and therefore clarify their goals and priority next steps for implementation. Other anticipated benefits of the tool include understanding roadblocks and closing the gap between design and practice.
The development of the pilot ICA was guided by a cross disciplinary expert panel that included balanced representation from patients, policy makers, service providers, health professionals, and researchers.
Watch this 7-minute poster presentation to hear an overview of the IPCHS standard and ICA Tool, including lessons learned.
Thank you to the International Foundation for Integrated Care for partnering with Health Standards Organization and Accreditation Canada to host this webinar.