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Ottawa, Manitoba invest $7 million in virtual care

June 15, 2022


Dr Chris ChristodoulouWINNIPEG – The governments of Canada and Manitoba released a Virtual Care Action Plan, which outlines how Manitoba will use the $7 million federal investment through the Canada-Manitoba Virtual Care Agreement to develop and improve virtual healthcare initiatives for Manitobans.

“Digital and virtual solutions are at the forefront of Manitoba’s Clinical and Preventive Services Plan,” said Dr. Chris Christodoulou (pictured), interim provincial lead of health system integration and quality, Shared Health.

“Providing suitable alternatives in the appropriate clinical setting that will help to reduce the frequency for rural and northern patients to travel long distances to receive care. Investing in digital enablers including remote home monitoring solutions will facilitate enhanced integration and delivery of patient care, support timely activation of in-person clinical assessments where appropriate, such that overall patient and family healthcare experiences are improved.”

The Virtual Care Action Plan outlines investments in a number of areas, particularly technology systems used by healthcare providers across the province. This includes a new project to measure, prioritize and schedule surgical procedures, with the goal of better managing and reducing wait times for patients.

Once complete, this initiative will support the efforts of Manitoba’s Diagnostic and Surgical Recovery Task Force to more accurately measure, manage and reduce backlogs that have grown during the pandemic.

Investments are also supporting remote home monitoring to allow more patients to connect virtually with their healthcare team on a regular basis. The remote home monitoring project builds on the success of the Virtual COVID Outpatient Program (VCOP), an initiative that supported the care and well-being of people with COVID-19 during their period of self-isolation.

The VCOP successfully moved to a new, more sustainable and extendable platform last month, providing patients and their care teams with new monitoring tools, a fully integrated video conferencing solution and the ability to monitor multiple patients using a single dashboard.

Another initiative of the Virtual Care Action Plan builds on existing digital health systems in Manitoba and invests in increased use of virtual care (video conferencing) for mental health and primary care services. Funding under the action plan will provide patients and health-care providers with a consistent, safe and modern way of offering virtual care, particularly for residents of rural or northern regions who would otherwise have to travel outside of their communities.

Tools that will be implemented for the video conferencing system may include more seamless integration with health-care provider point of care systems, improving workflow for clinicians by integrating with scheduling and other clinic processes.

Investments are also being made towards connectivity that will help ensure regional health authorities and other health system partners have the network and bandwidth resources needed to access various virtual care initiatives.

Projects under the action plan are being led by Shared Health and will align with Manitoba’s Clinical and Preventive Services Plan, a five-year plan with new approaches to health care designed to improve access, quality and patient outcomes for all Manitobans.

To view Manitoba’s Virtual Care Action Plan, visit https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/corporate/transparency/health-agreements/bilateral-agreement-pan-canadian-virtual-care-priorities-covid-19/manitoba-action-plan.html.

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