STEPPING UP Enabling National Strategies for

HOMECAREJoseph Mayer, Practice Lead, Home and Community Care, TELUS and Adrian Schauer, CEO, AlayaCare offer perspective on what they believe government

should expect from the digital health sector to support the delivery of more - and better - homecare services and to advance collaboration on health innovation.

WHAT’S LACKING ARE THE BASICS

Tools to empower, inform, and engage patients in their

care plans.

Technology platforms that allow providers to connect, collaborate, and become

better partners to the health system.

KEY STEPS TO ENACT MEANINGFUL & SUSTAINABLE CHANGE

Expanding Perceptions of Primary Care

Mobilizing for Right Care, Right Place, Right Time

Standards for High-Performing, Equitable Homecare

Strong Political Will

OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA• Develop policies that make access to integrated home and community care services more affordable and more equitable for all

• Harness Canadian innovations to deliver homecare infrastructure that mobilizes workforces and fully supports health and community care to enact government policy

• Build on the powerful progress demonstrated in British Columbia and Ontario to scale pan-Canadian standards for homecare

• Enable the right care, in the right place, at the right time by coordinating and mobilizing a clinical and social service workforce that delivers patient data in-hand

• Ensuring high quality homecare, and access to this care can only be achieved through the

implementation of standards

• If achieving better patient outcomes is incented, innovation will follow

• Strong political will to better enable the delivery of home-based care at both Federal and Provincial levels

• Recognition that technology is an essential underpinning

“the province spends $55 a day to provide a person with care in their home; yet despite the cost efficiency only about five per cent of provincial health budgets go to fund home care.” i.

- Health Minister Jane Philpott

SOURCES August 23, 2016, Bains, Camille, CP Canada’s Health-Care System Needs Innovation, Not More Money: i. Jane Philpott, as posted by Huffington Post

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• Technology enabled homecare can link primary care to patients and back to acute care

• Linking the various points of care eliminates the burden of gatekeeping from being solely on primary care practitioners