Better Outcomes Together: Empowering Teams for Patient-Centered Care

• Interested in presenting at the conference? The deadline to submit abstracts or concurrent sessions and posters is May 17, 2024, at 5:00 PM (EDT) 

The AFHTO 2024 Conference program is built around 4 core themes.

1. Expanding access to team-based care
2. Supporting the implementation of primary care networks
3. Investing in the digital health of primary care
4. Mental health and addictions

Conference Theme Descriptions

Download a printable PDF of the theme descriptions here.

1. Expanding access to team-based care
 

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):Connecting with home care

• Who needs us most? Addressing social determinants of health
• Local and regional engagement with government and health systems
• Recruitment and retention: local successes
• Program expansion and increasing attachment
• Addressing Health Human Resources while expanding access to care

2. Supporting the implementation of primary care networks
 

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Fostering better connections within OHTs
• Best approaches to integrate PCNs
• Case studies
• Addressing changes in team dynamics due to fluctuations in clinician numbers
   

3. Investing in the digital health of primary care
 

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Cybersecurity
• Interoperability
• Improving patient access to their data
• Responsible and innovative uses for AI including documentation

4. Mental health and addictions
 

Topics of interest include (but aren’t limited to):

• Embedding and connecting mental health and addictions services in primary care teams
• Standardising mental health and addictions care
• Addressing increasingly complex MH needs
• Incorporating sextuple aim into your everyday