pandemic vastly accelerated both the opportunities and challenges of this emerging field of medicine.due to nation-wide shortages of health workers, ongoing waves of COVID-19 infection and cascading ER closures in hospitals across the country, virtual care is increasingly being eyed as a solution to fill some gaps in the health system.
“Of the patients we’ve seen so far, 92 per cent have been effectively managed virtually, and only that eight per cent have been sent actually back to the department or an in-person and usually it’s a specialist referral.”Virtual care also provides more opportunities for patients who live in rural or remote areas of Canada to access doctors who prefer to live and practice in larger, better-resourced health networks.
“We have a partnership with a homeless shelter in Timmins, where we’re providing virtual addictions and medicine services, we’ve got a program set up now where the team has seen more than a thousand patients for free, using their OHIP to help folks get off of opiates, alcohol, amphetamines, smoking,” he said.
Smh
Don’t you mean PRIVATE health care? This product placement within the news is getting out of hand.