The Long Distance Digital Assessment

Ontario Tele-medicine Network has made another leap in technology. It is now feasible for critical care patients to receive their follow up assessments in their neighborhood hospitals linked with their specialist, who is often located many miles away. Through digital technology a client’s assessment can be sent instantly to a specialist using advance video and internet technology. A specialist can use this new technology as if the client were in the same examination room with them. It relieves the client of the stress and expense of traveling, often for many hours, and enables the client to be in a familiar environment that will hopefully expedite their healing. This is very exciting, as it makes health care more accessible than ever, even in critical care situations.