NEWMARKET, Ont. – Dr. Alan Lossing (pictured), chief of vascular surgery at Southlake Regional Health Centre, has been honoured with a Champions of Telemedicine Award by the Ontario Telemedicine Network.
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SUDBURY, Ont. – A new Northern Telepsychiatry Program will link psychiatrists to Family Health Teams in the North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), creating a collaborative care model for both providers and patients and increasing Northerners access to mental healthcare across the region.
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SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. – Unable to find a dermatologist to whom he could refer patients in Victoria, family doctor Shane Barclay, located on Salt Spring Island, created a teledermatology program that is available province-wide.
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. – Ontario’s Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. will provide $415,000 to eQOL, which will allow the company to complete clinical studies using its Dialysis Platform for Communication, Assistance and Training (DiCAT) product.
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ST. JOHN’S, Nfld & Labrador – A pilot project to remotely monitor patients with select chronic diseases will help these individuals better manage their health and reduce the need for medical interventions. The project is being led by Eastern Health and will involve up to 700 patients over the course of a year.
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MONTREAL – A Canadian cardiologist/intensivist with entrepreneurial flair has launched Reacts, a company that offers high-powered videoconferencing at low prices, making it easier for medical professionals to collaborate.
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A province-wide network for telepathology, said to be the first in the country that’s Health Canada-approved, is about to be launched by Newfoundland and Labrador. The $2.5 million project will help improve the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases for patients throughout the province by electronically connecting hospitals to experts at Eastern Health, in St. John’s, and ultimately, to other specialists in Toronto and Winnipeg.
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Communities in rural Canada have long struggled to retain family physicians. Attracting specialist physicians to these areas has been even harder. But in the past year, this troubling trend has begun to change for the better in rural British Columbia with the help of a new telemedicine company, Livecare, and the latest telemedicine technology from AMD Global Telemedicine.
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Fueled by an aging and growing population, the challenge of managing chronic disease and post-operative patients to prevent hospital re-admissions and emergency department visits has been near the forefront of policy discussions for many years. With years of experience from Canadian and international pilots, programs and research, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is increasingly becoming an important part of the solution.
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In January 2014, North West Telepharmacy Solutions (NWTS) undertook an ambitious project to assist in getting a rural hospital pharmacy department ready to implement 24-7 pharmacy services in only 100 days.
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