What is Integrated Care?
Integrated care brings together health and social systems to provide seamless, person-centred support. It emphasizes collaboration, communication, and coordination across providers and settings, ensuring individuals and families receive the right services when and where they need them—improving both care quality and system efficiency.
Domains of Integrated Care
Governance & Funding
Governance and Funding brings partners together through shared vision, strategy, accountability, funding, and community engagement to support integrated care
Planning & Evaluation
Planning & Evaluation ensures services match the needs of the people they serve and embeds ongoing evaluation and quality improvement to achieve better outcomes.
Evidence-Informed Care Pathways
Evidence-Informed Care Pathways use best practices to guide care processes, standardize assessments, and support coordinated, well-sequenced care for a defined population.
People & Teams
People & Teams focuses on how individuals, caregivers, and providers work together, share decision-making, and participate fully in the care experience.
Digital Health Enablers
Digital health enablers expand traditional in-person health delivery to improve access to information, services, and support. Digital health enablers can also be used to monitor complex conditions remotely and detect changes in health earlier to provide timely care interventions.
Data Systems
Data systems are the extent to which common information standards are implemented to enable information sharing.
The Centre for Integrated Care has established platforms to conduct research and provide technical support in all of these domains. The team builds, tests, and evaluates using data science, epidemiology, and digital clinical tools, AI, and other ‘smart systems’ to advance the work.
Our collaboration with partners amplifies the capacity to adopt and evolve the science of integrated care.