Towards a Canadian Model of Integrated Healthcare

Abstract

CANADA DOES NOT HAVE INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE.Canada has a series of disconnected parts, a hodge-podge patchwork, healthcare industry comprising hospitals, doctors' offices, group practices, community agencies, private sector organizations, public health departments and so on.Each Canadian province is experimenting with different types of organizational structures and processes with the intent of improving the coordination of services, facilitating better collaboration among providers and providing better healthcare to the population.However, regional health authorities and their variants in Canada do not possess most of the basic characteristics of integrated healthcare such as physician integration and a rostered population (Hospital Management Research Unit 1996,1997).In contrast, most developed countries are currently emphasizing integration of the components of healthcare as a 13

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