Building Canada's Complex Care Infrastructure
Specialist-led clinical capacity beyond hospital walls
Own Health builds specialist-led complex care pathways that enable community teams to safely manage high-risk patients outside the hospital. We shift specialist-level decision-making, risk stratification, and active medical oversight into the community — expanding capacity, improving outcomes, and stabilizing system demand.
Trusted by Canada’s Health Systems and Community Leaders
Why Now
The Complex Care Capacity Gap
Canada's health system struggles most with medically complex patients navigating multiple chronic conditions without timely access, coordination, or accountability.
- 5M Canadians live with two or more chronic diseases.
- 40% of ED visits for chronic disease could be managed in the community.
- Unattached complex patients have 3X higher repeat ED use.
- 20% of Ontarians lack timely access to primary care.
Health systems are managing late-stage complexity in acute settings instead of intervening earlier in the community — driving avoidable congestion, risk, and cost. This is a structural capacity gap with fragmented accountability.
Our Approach
Shifting Complex Care Upstream
Own Health embeds specialist-led oversight, risk-based triage, and escalation-enabled care within community systems — delivering proactive risk management and clear clinical accountability where it's needed most. Our approach enables:
- Rapid specialist involvement
- Structured monitoring with defined clinical thresholds and escalation pathways
- Prevention of late-stage deterioration
- Reduced emergency department reliance
- Increased community capacity
- Effective primary care attachment at scale
We deliver this through five integrated care pathways: Limb and Vascular Care, Hospital-to-Home Stabilization, ED-to-Home Stabilization, Primary Care Bridging, and Population Health.
We don't replace existing teams — we extend their capacity, enabling home care providers to operate at the top of their scope.
Our impact
Deployed Across Multiple Health Systems. Delivering Measurable Results.
For every $1 invested in an Own Health pathway, health systems see a 5X return in verifiable cost avoidance in year one — growing to up to 20X over the long term.
2.5M+
2.5M+ residents served across Ontario and PEI.
5,000+
Thousands of complex patients stabilized in the community
99%
99% faster access to specialist support for complex patients.
500+
500+ annual emergency department deflections.
50%
50% reduction in wound pathway length of stay.
400+
400+ clinicians trained. 93% clinician satisfaction.
BUILT INTO HOW WE WORK
Doctor Dash
Doctor Dash is Own Health's proprietary clinical decision support platform — built into how our care teams work across hospital and community settings.
- Secure, centralized clinical documentation with structured query and summarization.
- Condition-specific pathways embedded into workflows.
- Automated follow-up, reconciliation, diagnostics coordination, and scheduling.
- Clinical risk monitoring with escalation tracking.
- PHIPA and SOC2-compliant, HL7 / FHIR-integrated.
- Partner-controlled data governance and oversight
Designed to integrate with, not replace, existing partner systems.
Ready to Expand Your Complex Care Capacity?
Own Health partners with health systems, home care organizations, and regional health authorities to build specialist-led capacity for high-risk populations.
