Primary Care and Ontario Health Team (OHT) Development - 1. What is the value proposition for physicians to participate if they already have access to team-

Primary Care and Ontario Health Team (OHT) Development The following questions and answers have been developed by the Ministry of Health and Long- Term Care (Ministry), in partnership with the Ontario Medical Association (Section of General and Family Practice), the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario and the Ontario College of Family Physicians. [...] In Primary Care and Ontario Health Team Development – May 2019 addition, the ministry is committed to working with primary care organizations (including OMA Section on General and Family Practice, Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario and the Ontario College of Family Physicians) to help identify the supports that are necessary for primary care providers to participate in the OHT model. [...] As part of the assessment process, submissions will be reviewed to determine whether the listed partners have the capacity to deliver the services they propose to offer. [...] What suite of tools are being developed? Will this also include agreements, templates, MOUs for physicians? What will the physicians be held accountable to if they participate? There will be resources and supports dedicated to the development of OHTs and they will be guided by the needs of teams at each stage, and level of readiness. [...] How is the ministry going to address the lack of integration between primary care groups and across the various health care sectors with respect to EMR interoperability? Ontario has a wide variety of systems already in use that support integrated care such as the provincial clinical viewers, which allow health care providers to access integrated patient records.