Enhancing access to care in northern rural communities via telehealth

The cost of providing health care in northern Canada is higher than the rest of Canada. Telehealth has the potential to reduce health care expenditures. Yet this is still underutilised in Canada and globally. This paper describes the services provided through telehealth in some northern regions of C...

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Autores principales: Jong, Michael, Mendez, Ivar, Jong, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6508052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31066652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1554174
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description The cost of providing health care in northern Canada is higher than the rest of Canada. Telehealth has the potential to reduce health care expenditures. Yet this is still underutilised in Canada and globally. This paper describes the services provided through telehealth in some northern regions of Canada. It provides recommendations on the requirements for setting up real presence telehealth and how utilisation can be enhanced. Telehealth offers potential benefits for health outcomes by increasing access to healthcare, and reducing expenditures.
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spelling pubmed-65080522019-05-17 Enhancing access to care in northern rural communities via telehealth Jong, Michael Mendez, Ivar Jong, Robert Int J Circumpolar Health Short Communication The cost of providing health care in northern Canada is higher than the rest of Canada. Telehealth has the potential to reduce health care expenditures. Yet this is still underutilised in Canada and globally. This paper describes the services provided through telehealth in some northern regions of Canada. It provides recommendations on the requirements for setting up real presence telehealth and how utilisation can be enhanced. Telehealth offers potential benefits for health outcomes by increasing access to healthcare, and reducing expenditures. Taylor & Francis 2019-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6508052/ /pubmed/31066652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2018.1554174 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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