New RISE products

In the last six months, RISE has prepared evidence products and hosted online events (RISE jamborees) focused on supporting OHTs and OHT support partners in working through three issues critical to the development and maturation of OHTs across Ontario. These ‘packages’ of work and their key take-away messages are listed below.

How OHTs can meet the needs of rurally based patients and community partners in mixed and predominantly rural environments (which included the preparation of a rapid synthesis, a citizen brief that was used to inform two citizen panels, and a RISE brief that informed a jamboree and was updated based on input from the RISE jamboree)

Key messages:

  • Consider a tight-loose-tight approach – tight on goals, loose on ‘the how’ and ‘the who,’ and tight on accountability measures
  • Where possible, align funding opportunities with OHT maturity path, and providing adequate time for funding applications
  • Recognize that many rural teams may need additional resources, including tailored capacity-building support for leadership, conflict resolution, and systems thinking

Establishing intersections between OHTs and specialty service lines (which included the preparation of a rapid synthesis, a citizen brief that was used to inform two citizen panels and a RISE brief that informed a jamboree)

  • Provide greater clarity on what ‘clinical and fiscal accountability’ means for attributed patients that require specialty service lines
  • Use a matrix to prioritize planning for a small number of conditions, including:
    • establishing terms of engagement with those willing to pilot new approaches
    • co-design a new approach for select types of specialized lines of service
    • co-design a governance structure that would support collaboration within (and across) specialty service lines
    • establish a repository of care models and care pathways within specialty service lines

Establishing intersections between OHTs and broader human services (which included the preparation of a rapid synthesis, a citizen brief that was used to inform three citizen panels and a RISE brief that informed a jamboree)

  • Use opportunities presented through broader human services planning processes and policy reviews to align planning for OHTs, identify where common goals are already present, and determine ways to work together
  • Highlight examples of strong working relationships between health and broader human services – community hubs, community health centres, and sharing of planning and other data – that can be built on

Each of the products can be accessed using the links above. For those with questions about the products or about next steps, please contact waddellk@mcmaster.ca.