Compendium of Integrated Care
Introducing North America’s First Compendium of Integrated Care!
Across North America, people, communities, and organizations are leading extraordinary efforts to advance integrated care and population health, yet too often these efforts happen in silos.
The North American Compendium of Integrated Care is the first-of-its-kind resource that provides a clear sightline into who is doing what in integrated care and population health – at local, regional, and national levels.
Designed as a living resource for all of us, the Compendium offers a centralized, searchable directory to connect our efforts, accelerate shared knowledge, and amplify collective impact.
The Compendium will highlight key elements of integrated care efforts that will be comparable across submissions. This will serve as a foundation for shared knowledge and understanding that will inform future partnerships, models of care or system improvements to advance integrated care and population health.
Through NACIC’s virtual community, knowledge from the Compendium will be actively shared and discussed, creating a dynamic space where submissions are spotlighted for exponential learning.
Submit what you are doing to advance integrated care and population health to contribute to Integrated Care Compendium.
Access this PDF to see what information is required to fill out the Submission Template.
- Who should submit? Initiatives that involve coordination of patient-centred care from two or more health or social service sectors (e.g. primary care, community services, acute care) for individuals over a period of time. A manager or team member with in-depth knowledge of the initiative should complete the submission. You may consult others as needed.
- What does the template include? 46 multiple-choice questions and 4 open-text questions. It takes approximately 30 minutes for someone very familiar with the initiative. Completion time will be shorter if the respondent has prepared responses to three 100-word open-ended questions including: 1) an overall description of the program; 2) a commentary on what makes this program different; and 3) information that others implementing the program would want to know. (Only the first of these is required to complete the template.)
- What happens with your submission? Your responses will be posted on NACIC’s public-access website. Individual personal information will not be shared without permission.
- What should I do if I have multiple initiatives to submit? If you have multiple initiatives, please complete one submission for each initiative.
The submission form is built on a standardized, internationally validated template informed by global case study methodologies for documenting integrated health and social care initiatives.
Building on these global efforts, our Compendium adapts proven approaches for the North American context and expands them to include critical dimensions, most notably, the voices of people with lived experience as partners in care. These co-design enhancements transform the submission process from simply documenting case studies into enabling and co-creating the first comprehensive sightline of integrated care and population health at this scale – a resource designed for everyone.
How You Can Contribute
- Submit your work
- Share this opportunity with your networks
- Stay connect with the NACIC newsletter and communities of learning to stay informed on when the Compendium will go live
Citations
- Bhattacharyya, O., Shaw, J., Sinha, S., Gordon, D., Shahid, S., Wodchis, W. P., & Anderson, G. (2020). Innovative integrated health and social care programs in eleven high-income countries. Health Affairs, 39(4), 689–696. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00826
- Steele Gray, C., Zonneveld, N., Breton, M., Wankah, P., Shaw, J., Anderson, G. M., & Wodchis, W. P. (2020). Comparing international models of integrated care: How can we learn across borders? International Journal of Integrated Care, 20(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.5413
- Wodchis, W. P., et al. (2020). Innovative policy supports for integrated health and social care programs in high-income countries. Health Affairs, 39(4), 697–703. https://doi.org/10.26099/mpf5-y143