VANCOUVER – CloudMD Software & Services Inc., a telehealth company seeking to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare to patients, is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire 100% of Snapclarity Inc, a mental health pioneer.
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FREDERICTON, NB – To ensure that a weekly caseload of 2,500 addictions and mental-health patients could continue to be seen by healthcare professionals when COVID-19 caused people to stay at home, Horizon Health quickly shifted to a virtual solution. A live video solution was proposed, and Krisan Palmer (pictured on left), virtual care manager and clinical lead was tasked with overseeing the rapid rollout of the Virtual Care Platform to almost 700 mental health clinicians across Horizon.
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LONDON, ON – To better support those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, six physicians at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) have developed a new care pathway to identify, triage, monitor, and manage the potential complications of the disease through a new virtual clinic. The LHSC Urgent COVID-19 Care Clinic is caring for patients referred from the Middlesex-London Health Unit, Emergency Department, and family practitioners, as well as patients discharged from inpatient services.
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MONTREAL – Have you come into contact with someone who has COVID-19 and don’t know what to do? Do you need to self-isolate and require support? With the list of coronavirus-related symptoms constantly changing, are you unsure if you’re infected?
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TORONTO – Shoppers Drug Mart and Canada’s leading virtual care provider, Maple, have launched in-store virtual care across British Columbia locations. Online doctor visits at Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacies are covered by B.C.’s Medical Services Plan (MSP), just like in-person appointments.
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TORONTO – OnCall Health’s virtual care platform is being used by Trafalgar Addiction Treatment Centres to offer virtual settings for addiction and mental health treatment.
Since the onset of the pandemic, over 60 people have participated in Trafalgar’s Intensive Virtual Addiction Rehab Program from the safety of their homes. Graduates and alumni of Trafalgar’s Residential and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) can also access aftercare services online.
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HAMILTON, ONT. – Researchers and clinicians at Hamilton Health Sciences are leading a multi-hospital study to determine if the numbers of discharged surgical patients who return to hospital in the first 30 days after discharge – a critical period for recoveries – can be significantly reduced through the use of remote monitoring technology.
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Susan Savage joined the collaborative family practice team at North Queens Medical Centre in Caledonia, N.S. – 100 km west of Halifax – two years ago as a nurse practitioner with Nova Scotia Health Authority.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded earlier this year, healthcare facilities across the country found themselves – like so many other organizations – having to urgently reinvent ways to operate, provide patient care, manage supply chains and deploy resources, with many of the usual ways of doing things suddenly off the table.
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MONTREAL – Chronometriq has announced the release of a redesigned version of MagicSeat, their virtual queue management system for clinics. First launched in 2012 under the name “SmartWait”, MagicSeat was created to free patients from the waiting rooms in walk-in clinics.
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