The province’s new agency to overhaul a “disconnected” medical system will be called Ontario Health and set up local teams to provide care more “seamlessly,” Health Minister Christine Elliott says. Calling the health system “siloed and fragmented,” Elliott said Tuesday that the new legislation, if passed, would transform the patient experience by making it easier to navigate. Article Continued BelowElliott cautioned the “transformation” will take time, with Health Ontario setting province-wide standards for care. As the Star first reported Jan. 17, the government has been planning a new health care “super agency” that will subsume about 20 health agencies to provide for streamlined accountability. Under the legislation, those agencies include Cancer Care Ontario, eHealth Ontario, various local health integration networks created by a previous Liberal government, and Trillium Gift of Life Network.

Source: thestar February 26, 2019 14:48 UTC