Clinical Telemedicine Utilization in Ontario over the Ontario Telemedicine Network

Clinical Telemedicine Utilization in Ontario over the Ontario Telemedicine Network

INTRODUCTION Northern Ontario is a region in Canada with approximately 775,000 people in communities scattered across 803,000 km(2). The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) facilitates access to medical care in areas that are often underserved. We assessed how OTN utilization differed throughout the province. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used OTN medical service utilization data collected through ...

Profile: Ed Brown and the development of the Ontario Telemedicine Network.

Parkinsonism in Ontario: physician utilization.

BACKGROUND Patients with Parkinsonism have a progressive disorder requiring substantial expertise to manage effectively. METHODS Over a six-year period we evaluated physician utilization and related costs for a large, unselected cohort of 15,304 Parkinsonian patients from the general population, comparing them to 30,608 age- and sex-matched controls within a universal health care system in On...

Telemedicine in clinical setting

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Wireless Telemedicine Services Over

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