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Telehealth Program

What is Telehealth?

Telehealth is the use of information and communication technologies to provide health care when provider and recipient are separated by distance.

Access to care is a recurring theme in the goals of Canadian health-care providers and government agencies. Telehealth covers the great Canadian barrier to access: geography. Physicians and allied health-care providers at UHN will have the option of offering video conferencing to patients who currently travel many hours and incur significant personal costs to obtain care. UHN has partnered with the NORTH Network to offer residents of Northern Ontario access to care through this established and expanding telehealth network.

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• Telehealth

Related Web Sites

• NORTH Network
  The North Network is a group of communities in Ontario that are connected by the Internet. Because many people in central and northern Ontario have to travel a long way for health care at UHN, UHN has become a member of the North Network.
• Canadian Society of Telehealth
  It leads the transformation of health care through information and communication technology by providing a forum for advocacy, communication and sharing of resources among our communities of interest.
• Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
  The Centre helps UHN achieve its vision of global impact and its mission of exemplary patient care, research and education. Its main priority is to test and develop eHealth innovations, using the expertise of affiliated researchers who are leaders in the social sciences, technology and health knowledge management fields. Using the Centre's state-of-the-art facilities and resources, researchers are able to engage in collaborative, transdiscplinary efforts, crossing institutional and geographic bounds.