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Digital Innovations Digital health initiatives enhancing health system collaboration, security and connectivity.
Health Workforce Initiatives focused on workforce training, optimization, recruitment, retention and integrated capacity planning in Ontario’s health care system.
Home and Community Care The Common Assessments and Integrated Assessment Record (IAR) enable collaborative care planning and enhanced communication between health service providers.
Indigenous Health Health care services and information that support the unique needs of First Nations, Inuit, Métis and urban Indigenous peoples in Ontario.
Planning and Reporting Plans and reports on Ontario's health system, access to health care and health outcomes for people living in Ontario.
Primary Care We integrate and connect primary care across the health system to support team-based care centred around patients and their communities.

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Calls for Participation in Innovation Projects See current calls for participation in innovation projects through the Health Innovation Pathway.
Memo: Important Changes to Consent Management in the Electronic Health Record Learn about Ontario Health’s updated consent model for the provincial Electronic Health Record and how changes impact patients and health care providers.
Ontario’s Surgical Performance Plan Drives Better Access to Surgery Ontario’s surgical system experiences province-wide improvements with plan that helps reduce wait times and provide better access to surgery for patients.

Last Updated: April 08, 2026

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