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Telehealth Use by TBRHSC Care Teams

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• Senior Admin. Meetings
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Ontario Medical Association
• Ontario Hospital Association
• Job interviews
• Air Ambulance
• Provincial meetings
• Oral exams

 

Cardiology

• Ottawa Heart Institute pre & post-op consults
• Cardiac rehabilitation program delivery to the region
• Consultations to regional patients
• Dietary counseling re: weight reduction and cholesterol
• Cardiology case study discussion with region

 

Maternal Child

• Clinical consults to region and with Hospital for Sick Children
• Review of urgent neonatal ECHOs and ECG’s by CHEO
• Family visitations supported by Telehealth and video phones
• Child and adolescent psych. consults
• Discharge planning team meetings
• Paediatric residency supported by Telehealth link to McMaster
• Perinatal rounds from CHEO
• Fetal alert rounds
• Child abuse rounds
• OB/GYN clinical consults

 

Internal Medicine

• Internal Medicine consults and follow-up
• Internal Medicine residency training supported by link to McMaster Gerontology
• Guardianship education sessions
• Assessment education
• Power of Attorney education delivered to region
• Living Wills session
• Restraint usage education sessions
• Fall in elderly education

 

Outpatient Dietary Counseling

• Offered to communities in the region without the services of a dietician Respirology
• Asthma group regional meetings with Kenora
• Asthma education
• Respirology consults to region and from tertiary care sites

 

Psychiatry

• Consultations to the region
• Psychiatry residency support by Telehealth link to Toronto

 

Regional Stroke Program

• Regional rounds, education opportunities
• Neurological consults

 

Oncology

• Consultations
• Day-long clinics to region
• Tele-mentoring regional nurses to increase comfort level with palpation/examinations
• Supportive care counseling
• Prostate support group
• Dietary counseling
• Cancer Care reports to communities
• Cancer Care Admin. meetings to Toronto
• Family visitation

 

Renal Program

• University Health Network transplant team consults
• Regional outpatients follow-up and consults
• Admin. meetings with satellite teams - Sioux Lookout, Fort Frances
• Education to home care nurses in region (re: Peritoneal Dialysis)
• Family visitation to patients on renal dialysis unable to return to their First Nations community

 

Surgery

• Pre anaesthetic consults
• Pre and post-op surgical consults
• Pre and post endoscopy consults
• Surgical grand rounds from McMaster University
• Surgical residency training supported by Telehealth link to McMaster

 

 

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