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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OTTAWA – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) released a national poll today showing that Canadians are embracing virtual care options and would like to see them not only continued after the COVID-19 crisis subsides but improved and expanded in the future.
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TORONTO – OnCall Health announced a commercial partnership with Lumino Health, an innovation from Sun Life, to connect healthcare providers with Canadians from a distance.
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PEMBROKE, ON – In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Eastern Ontario region of Renfrew County established a virtual visit service that provides telemedicine visits between doctors and patients. But the centre has gone a step further, allying with paramedics to provide in-home visits to patients who need hands-on assessment and diagnosis.
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