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Telehomecare: Receiving High Marks from Patients while Providing Significant Value for the Health Care System

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Posted on May 24, 2018 by Krista Balenko , Jennifer Conn and Simon Hagens Over the past decade, Infoway has been investing in telehomecare (also known as remote patient monitoring or RPM) programs in Canada, delivering health services to patients in the...

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Telehomecare: Delivering Value for Canadians — Infographic

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23 May 2018

Recent telehomecare reports from six projects in five provinces (Ontario, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island & Quebec) involved in the Infoway Telehomecare Program, have yielded impressive results. View our infographic to...

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Connecting Patients with Providers: A Pan-Canadian Study on Remote Patient Monitoring, Executive Summary

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09 June 2014

Connecting Patients with Providers: A Pan-Canadian Study on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was commissioned to investigate the current state of RPM in Canada and help inform the potential for broader implementation across Canada. The study suggests...

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Remote Patient Monitoring: Keeping Patients at Home

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Nancy is enrolled in a Community Paramedicine Program that provides digital health tools in the homes of patients so they can measure their vitals such as blood pressure, weight and oxygen levels. The information is sent to Emergency Medical Services in...

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Telepathology in Canada

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Posted on July 8, 2020 by Nancy Gupta and Sukirtha Tharmalingam When disease is suspected, how long does it take a patient to go from biopsy to diagnosis and treatment plan? It depends where you live. Across Canada, it can take anywhere from days,...

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Evaluation of the Multi-Jurisdictional Telepathology Project

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17 June 2020

The Multi-Jurisdictional Telepathology (MJT) Project involves implementation of a software solution and technical infrastructure to support secondary consultation workflows between pathologists across provinces. The first phase of the project, the basis...

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Early Adoption of PrescribeIT Sets Lethbridge Doctors up for Success During COVID-19

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Posted on June 2, 2020 by Anne Baldwin When PrescribeIT^® launched in Lethbridge, AB, in February 2018, it was the first community in the province to use the e-prescribing service. It was also among the first in the country. As early adopters,...

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Virtual Beats Viral

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Posted on May 19, 2020 by Katie Bryski It’s been nine weeks since I came home and stayed home. In that time, we’ve seen extraordinary growth of virtual care across Canada. As our health system faces unprecedented challenges, virtual care has proven to...

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Analysis of the Current and Potential Benefits of Virtual Care in Canada

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14 May 2020

This analysis describes the current virtual care landscape in Canada with a focus on the benefits achieved through investments in telehealth for rural and remote communities and projected benefits for the expansion of virtual care to primary care...

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Transforming the Patient Experience with Telehomecare

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Posted on December 10, 2019 by Krista Balenko Telehomecare is enabling more Canadians to receive care at home, transforming the patient experience and helping to improve their quality of life by avoiding hospital stays and trips to the emergency...

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TelePremie: Telehomecare for step-down care post-NICU discharge

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22 May 2019

This small scale evaluation of Telehomecare for step-down care post-NICU discharge in New Brunswick provides important evidence and lessons for future telehomecare investments for new parents.

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Efficiency and Clinical Effectiveness of Telehomecare in Insulin-Treated Diabetic Patients

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14 November 2018

This study found a telehomecare program for diabetic patients demonstrated and improvement in glycemic control compared to usual care. It also suggests a decrease in the number of medical visits, with additional burden shifted to nursing time.

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Evaluation of a Telehomecare Initiative Used in Women with Gestational Diabetes

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14 November 2018

Telehomecare Monitoring significantly decreases medical visits without compromising pregnancy outcomes, quality of care and patient satisfaction in women with gestational diabetes mellitus.

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Evaluation of Telehealth for Emergency-Community Continuity of Care Connectivity via Home Telemonitoring

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21 September 2018

This evaluation of a project supporting patients with COPD in Vancouver Coastal Health demonstrates the effects of home health monitoring. Patients reported a 90% satisfaction rate with the program. Hospital administrative data indicated a 47% decrease...

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Ontario Telemedicine Network: TeleWound Evaluation Report

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08 August 2018

Traditional wound care is costly to the system (over $1 billion in Ontario) and time consuming for patients. This study of a TeleWound project conducted in the Central Eastern LHIN found an 89% patient satisfaction rate with 3 hours of patient travel...

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Ontario Telemedicine Network: TelePalliative Evaluation Report

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08 August 2018

While most Canadians would prefer to die at home, almost 2/3 of palliative care patients will die in hospital. This study of TelePalliative projects in the Champlain and Erie St. Clair LHINs demonstrated that patients were satisfied with the program,...

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Interior Health Cardiac Home Monitoring Project-Phase II: 2016-2018

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27 June 2018

This report conducts an in depth analysis of phase II in the Interior Health Cardiac Home Monitoring Project. This Infoway funded project evaluates the benefits of implementing remote patient monitoring services for patients living with heart failure....

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Community Paramedicine Remote Patient Monitoring (CPRPM): Benefits Evaluation Lessons Learned

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23 May 2018

This report analyzes the primary effects and lessons learned of implementing the Community Paramedicine Remote Patient Monitoring (CPRPM) Program for patients living with various chronic conditions. This home-based monitoring system aims to help...

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An Evaluation of a Remote Patient Monitoring Solution within Eastern Health

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23 May 2018

This report assesses the effectiveness of Eastern Health’s Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) program for patients living with a chronic disease. Using a quasi- experimental approach, this study evaluates patients on the ability to self-manage their...

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Benefits of e-Health

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e-Health, or digital health, helps Canadians access better quality care more efficiently, through solutions and services such as electronic medical records, telehomecare, virtual visits and patient portals. For clinicians, it means more informed...

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