Spotlight

April 23, 2026

Anne Wojtak and Jodeme Goldhar start off Healthcare Quarterly's The Continuum of Integrated Care series.

"A Framework for Sensemaking and Advancing the Continuum of Integrated Care: From Condition-Based Pathways to Population Health" - A novel framework for sense making, categorizing and conceptualizing multiple approaches to integrated care. The authors highlight how the attributes, context, complexity and level of impact on population health change from one approach to another. Healthcare Quarterly 28(4)

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Thursday, May 21, 2026  - Toronto, ON Longwoods Breakfast Series

How to Fight for What You Need: Advocating for Care in Canada’s Health Care System

Michael Decter, Former Ontario Deputy Minister of Health, Mike McCarthy, Canadian Patient Advocate, Healthcare Consultant, and Expert in Navigating Complex Health Systems and Moderator: Shelley Ambrose, Publisher, Journalist, Producer, and Executive

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News

May 04, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
The current state of electronic health records across Canada: an environmental scan and interoperability maturity assessment

2026-05-04 from cmaj.ca Background: Canada has achieved near-universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and yet interoperability, the secure exchange and use of health data across di [...]

May 04, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
‘Hopeful milestone’: Health Canada approves 2nd drug to slow Alzheimer’s

2026-05-04 from globalnews.ca Health Canada has approved a second drug that can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Donanemab, sold by American drugmaker Eli Lilly under the brand nam [...]

May 04, 2026 Health & Healthcare News
CMHA’s Mental Health Week 2026

2026-05-04 from cmha.ca This Mental Health Week, CMHA is inviting you to connect with your community and yourself! Together, we can strengthen belonging, reduce isolation, and support well-being [...]

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Integration of health and social care is increasingly central to improving outcomes, experience and sustainability; however, integrated care is not a single construct. This article presents a novel framework to categorize and conceptualize different approaches to integrated care, illustrating variations in attributes, context, complexity and impact. Drawing on international literature, three approaches to integration – condition-based, multi-condition and population-based – are exami [...]