Telehealth

WINNIPEG - Over 60 emergency care doctors in Winnipeg are calling on the province to hit pause on talks about possibly implementing a virtual care initiative to reduce wait times in emergency rooms. Read More

MONTREAL - For the first time in Quebec, certain patients who need urgent care are being offered a virtual alternative to an in-person visit to the emergency department (ED). The service, which recently went into operation, enables individuals who are 18 years old and up to connect by videoconferencing to an emergency physician at the Jewish General Hospital University Health Centre from the comfort of their home. Read More

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is promising to make prescription renewals easier through Virtual Care NB. Patients complained they faced delays obtaining routine medications following the launch of the new system last month. Read More

REGINA - The Government of Saskatchewan is following up on its Patients First commitment by issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking vendors to provide virtual care services for patients who do not have a regular family physician, nurse practitioner or primary care team. Read More

FREDERICTON, NB - Health minister John Dornan (pictured) said Woodstock-based eVisitNB will continue to provide virtual healthcare services to New Brunswickers for another 90 days after March 31. Last month, the province announced that eVisitNB’s contract wouldn’t be renewed and instead a new company would take over the service. Read More

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - The Sault Area Hospital launched its virtual ER waiting room project last August and the results have been encouraging for patients with less urgent concerns. The wait time to see a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant for patients using the virtual queue has been reduced by half, compared to those with similar symptoms and health issues who physically wait at the hospital. Read More

TORONTO - VITALL Intelligence Inc. has announced the commercial availability of Medly®, a clinically validated digital therapeutic for heart failure developed at University Health Network (UHN). As UHN’s exclusive, global licensee VITALL will deliver the Medly service from its digital health platform enabling cardiac centres to equip heart failure patients with the service. Read More

KELOWNA, BC - Starting this week, patients visiting four Interior Health (IH) emergency departments (EDs) may receive care from a physician working virtually. This is part of IH LINK-ED (Local Integrated Network for Emergency Departments), a new virtual care pilot designed to modernize emergency care services for rural communities. Read More

VANCOUVER – UniDoc announced the sale of three Health Cubes to Verizon for demonstration within Verizon Innovation Labs. Two units have been delivered and installed - one at Verizon’s Los Angeles Innovation Lab and one at the San Francisco Innovation Center. Verizon plans to use the systems to showcase UniDoc’s clinician-assisted virtual care capabilities to enterprise visitors through its Innovation Labs program. Read More

TORONTO - Roughly one in five Canadians do not have a primary healthcare provider, with low-income women and families facing even greater barriers to essential health services. To help more Canadians get the care they need, Sun Life is launching a program to bring virtual healthcare to underserved communities across Canada. Read More