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Matawa First Nations is looking to develop a broadband fibre optic network for their five remote fly-in communities in the Ring of Fire area.

“This project is really about the communities and about the membership at the community level opening up a new world to the benefits that we take for granted sometimes in the urban areas,” said Jason Rasevych, Matawa’s economic development advisor. “There would be advantages to health services through telemedicine and video counselling. There would be advantages for economic development because we would have employment and training that could be linked to video training and online training tools.”

Weiterlesen: CA: Ontario: Matawa looking at inter-community fibre optic network

Congestive heart failure, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are three of the leading causes of death in the U.S. The use of telemedicine to help manage chronic diseases such as these can yield clear benefits including fewer and shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, less severe illness, and even fewer deaths, as reported in a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Telemedicine and e-Health website until October 10, 2014.

Weiterlesen: Telemedicine Northern Canadian Reality

The use of telemedicine to help manage chronic diseases yields clear benefits including fewer, shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, less severe illness and fewer deaths according to a new study published in Telemedicine and e-Health.

Telemedicine patients also proved to be more engaged in their health management.

Weiterlesen: CA: Ontario: Telemedicine reduces ER visits and shortens hospital stays

What is it with the B.C. government and expensive, poorly managed computer projects?

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has learned via whistleblowers that B.C. Emergency Health Services, which runs the B.C. Ambulance Service, has dumped its highly touted, $2.8 million Electronic Patient Care Record system – before it even went into use.

A posting on the BCEHS Intranet, obtained by the CTF, reports: “BCEHS has been working hard to develop an ePCR system our needs for reliability, quality and functionality and can integrate with existing systems in hospital emergency departments. Unfortunately, the vendor was unable to meet our business requirements.”

Weiterlesen: CA: British Columbia: Another expensive provincial computer foul-up