NACIC2021 - 1st North American Conference on Integrated Care is organized by The International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) and will be held from Oct 04 - 06, 2021 at Beanfield Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Overarching Theme: 'Co-designing for health and wellbeing with individuals and communities'

Target Audience:
The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care.

Conference Themes:
Meaningful partnership with patients, families and citizens
• How do we know it’s real? How do we know when we have got it right?
• How does patient, family and citizen engagement make a difference?
• What are the actionable strategies for meaningful partnerships?
• How do we ensure effective representative engagement from diverse communities?
• Are there practical tools to help patients advocate for integrated care for themselves and engage in co-design?
• How has the voluntary sector become involved in integrated care?
• What do providers need to know to effectively engage with patients in co-design?
• How do we learn from design experiences in other industries?

Implementing Integrating Care: top-down policies and local bottom-up innovations
• What policy changes have occurred internationally to support the implementation of integrated care?
• What are the best practices/proven approaches to building sustainable local partnerships to integrate care around patients and families?
• What are we learning about connecting top down and bottom up efforts?
• What do different types of organizations contribute to integrate care?
• What are the challenges in broadening integration to social care and lessons learned?
• How do patients best get involved in bottom up approaches?
• What can we learn from “citizens initiatives” to organize local care and personal health budgets?

Cutting edge technology and innovations contributing to Integrated Care
• What are the latest developments in integrated care?
• How can technologies be leveraged to accelerate integrated care?
• How are the latest digital health strategies supporting integrated care?
• How is technology innovation supporting person-centred integrated care?

Adaptive strategies and change management: the softer side of integrated care
• What are the latest approaches to enhance the people side of change in implementing integrated care?
• How do we deal with the challenges of complexity in managing these changes?
• What are leadership strategies for integrated care? What competencies are needed?
• What are the challenges/barriers and examples of proven successes in change-management / new ways of working to support integrated care?

Transferable lessons in spread and scale of integrated care
• What are the transferable lessons from scaling up and spreading integrated care?
• What does collaborative leadership and governance look like for spread and scale?
• What are transferable lessons from outside healthcare?

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.