Patient Assignment to Primary Health Care Providers

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This project addresses the importance of determining how an efficient primary healthcare delivery can bedesigned and implemented in Ontario, Canada. In the current practice, an individual must search for a familyphysician on their own. If the physician has enough capacity to take a new patient, that individual is assigned tothe physician's list; otherwise, he/she should check with other physicians or stay on the waitlist. This practicecan create different workloads for physicians and also result in a few issues for patients, e.g., patients may beleft searching for a family physician or waiting a few days to be visited by their physician.This initiative is in accordance to the Ontario Government's decision to implement a new primary care modelthrough the establishment of the Patient Care Groups (PCGs). A proper implementation of the PCG model canimprove the primary healthcare delivery to Ontarians. However, there is currently limited guidelines on thePCG model and its implementation. To provide a better understanding of the PCG model and a clear guidelineon its implementation, Homecare Intelligence Canada (a technology-based software solution provider) and itsacademic partner (Ryerson University) have collaboratively started work on this project. The main goal of theproposed research project is to understand the logistical implications of this new model of primary caredelivery.