Integrated care aims to coordinate a patient’s care across community, primary and secondary care settings and between different providers in health and social care settings to meet the care needs of the population. There is widespread interest in pursuing integration to develop responsive, appropriate, and efficient health services that provide user centered care and/or to drive cost efficiencies through improved care pathways.

Ontario is pursuing a whole systems approach to integration through a reorganization into Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) where hospitals, doctors, and allied health providers work as a coordinated team to provide responsive, appropriate, and efficient health services. This report compares and characterizes integrated care reforms across four international comparators to identify promising policy supports for the implementation of integrated care initiatives in Ontario.