Telehealth

MONTREAL – Sollio Cooperative Group, one of the world’s largest agricultural cooperatives, has chosen EQ Care to deliver telemedicine services for employees of its parent company and three divisions, Sollio Agriculture, Olymel and BMR Group. Read More

CALGARY – Leading virtual healthcare platform, HelloMD, in collaboration with Dr. Sana-Ara Ahmed (pictured), is offering support to chronic pain patients in Alberta during COVID19. According to Statistics Canada, six million people suffer from chronic pain across Canada. With the current mandate for social distancing, patients across all demographics are having a difficult time finding proper medical support. Read More

LONDON, ON – Across St. Joseph’s Health Care London, care teams are rapidly and creatively taking advantage of what they see as the COVID-19 silver lining – the impetus to fast forward and capture the benefits of virtual or remote patient care. In April, 50-60 percent of all registered visits at St. Joseph’s were virtual, a jump from about five per cent pre-pandemic. Read More

HALIFAX – As Nova Scotians continue to be deeply affected by recent tragic events, Shoppers Drug Mart has made available online mental health programs to areas of the province affected by the tragedies, in partnership with the Government of Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia Health Authority. Immediate and extended families of victims, close friends, neighbours, and others, will be contacted by their postal code and offered unique access, free of charge. Read More

BARRIE, ON – Through partnerships and technology, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare has introduced virtual critical care that will enable more critically-ill patients to stay in Muskoka hospitals for the intensive care they need, close to their family and friends. Read More

REGINA – Lumeca and SaskTel recently collaborated on a project with the aim to make virtual healthcare more accessible for residents of Cowessess First Nation. Working together, they came up with a unique solution that allows residents to download and use the Lumeca app in the community by connecting to the band office’s Smart Wi-Fi powered by SaskTel. Read More

TORONTO – Answering the need for more virtual care during the COVID-19 emergency, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has increased the volume of virtual visits it conducts from 350 per month before the crisis hit to nearly 3,000 in April 2020. Read More

Vancouver – TELUS Health announced the expansion of its Home Health Monitoring (HHM) solution so nurses and other healthcare providers in B.C. can digitally monitor more patients remotely while they recover from COVID-19. Read More

KINGSTON, ON – Patients throughout the province of Ontario, who do not have a primary care physician or are unable to see their own physician, are now able to “see” a family physician virtually by visiting www.seethedoctor.ca (using the access code “health”) for non-COVID-19 related health issues. Read More