Consultations with canadian specialists
Teleconferencing services brings expertise in rehabilitation to your hospital or clinic. International expertise is available to you and your client through our telehealth services. Telehealth helps bring care closer to home by linking patients with specialists who can help address the specific issues of the patient even when they are not in the same location.
We offer consultations tailored to the clinician’s and the patients’ needs, thereby providing greater access to specialized care.
Benefits of Telehealth
- Reduces barriers to access
- Saves time and money to obtain expert advice.
- Reduce wait times for access to care
The backbone of our services is live videoconferencing between two sites. This is supplemented by the provision of information concerning best practices for the health issue concerning the patient. Canadian experts can provide clinical information to a consulting specialist at a distance. Canada is a global leader in this area, with an extensive history of telemedicine.
Research shows that Telehealth can enhance quality of care by better supporting chronic disease management, application of best practices, improvement of knowledge and skill development in local care providers, and improvement of care coordination[1]. Specifically, telehealth:
- Enhances patient-centred care through provision of convenient services closer to the client
- Improves timeliness of care
- Supports better chronic disease management
- Supports application of leading practices
- Improves knowledge and skill development in local care providers
- Improves care coordination
- Increases productivity by allowing providers to perform a higher volume of consultations
We invite practicing clinicians to contact us for their issues in rehabilitation. To facilitate transfer of knowledge, we offer this service with Canadian-based Chinese-speaking clinical experts or with translation from English to Chinese by a practicing clinician who accompanies the Canadian expert.