When registrants renew their registration for 2025-2026, they may notice we are collecting new data in alignment with the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)’s updated 2022 health human resource dataset. All occupational therapy regulators in Canada, including COTO, share aggregate health workforce data with CIHI to support health workforce planning and policy development. COTO collects this type of data from registrants at annual renewal.
Looking forward to 2025
During the 2025 renewal, registrants will notice these changes:
Employment and Practice Data
- More specific options to choose from when describing their employment information.
- Adjusted dropdown lists with title/position, status, main area of practice, employment category and employment status.
- A clean-up of the practice site fields and fields to collect their primary mode of care (for example, in person, videoconference) as well as percent of time providing remote (virtual) care.
Voluntary Indigenous and Racialized Group Identity Data
- Added more specific options to choose from when describing Indigenous Identity
- An option to provide Racialized Group Identity data
Watch for policy updates in the January 2025 Board highlights and newsletter updates with detailed information about data collection and uses.