The use of telemedicine in Northern Canadian communities is a regular part of medical treatment, as small communities across Northwestern Ontario, and Northern parts of Canada do not have the population base to support hospitals, and many communities do not have a full-time doctor.
One of the added realities of Northern Canadian healthcare is the important access to reliable air ambulance services.
Rashid Bashshur, PhD, Gary Shannon, PhD, and Brian Smith, MS, led a team of clinicians and researchers from the U.S. and Canada that included Telemedicine and e-Health Co-Editors-in-Chief Charles R. Doarn, MBA, and Ronald C. Merrell, MD, in the study entitled “The Empirical Foundations of Telemedicine Interventions for Chronic Disease Management.” The advantages enabled by telemedicine derive from its ability to help patients become more involved in their own care, facilitate continuous monitoring and early detection of new and recurring symptoms, and allow for prompt responses to worsening illness.
The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has embraced telemedicine and televisitation.
“The integration of telemedicine into healthcare adds great value in managing chronic disease both for patient and provider,” says Co-Editor-in-Chief Charles R. Doarn, MBA, Research Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. “Dr. Bashshur has presented this work to both the U.S. Congress and the Congressional Budget Office, and with concomitant efforts by the American Telemedicine Association and others, the Congress may finally move telemedicine forward as an important element in healthcare for all Americans.”
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Quelle/Source: Net Newsledger, 13.09.2014
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