OHTs will eventually be responsible for providing a full spectrum of health care services for their entire attributed populations, but they have also been asked to specify which population(s) they will focus on in Year 1 of OHT implementation. Learn more about the selected populations and how to start addressing their unique needs.

You may have heard the terms ‘physician network’ and ‘patient attribution’ being discussed by the Ministry of Health in the context of assigning patients to Ontario Health Teams (OHTs). You may be asking yourself, ‘what is that?’ and ‘what does it mean for me and my OHT?’

The term “population health” has become quite the buzzword in Ontario and I’ve seen many definitions floating around – but it doesn’t need to be so complicated. Population health is just that: the health of the population.