Telehealth: What

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TelehealthWhats Happening in The Calgary
Health RegionVirtual Care. Virtually Anywhere.
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Program History

• 90 of basic and special needs funding went to
  Education
• 2 clinical areas received funding
• Pediatric
• Teletoxicology
• Other clinical services will be joint effort
  between the clinical service and Telehealth

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Teleconsulting

• Current Programs Include
• Geriatrics Consultation between RGH and Red Deer
• Clinical Case conferences province wide
• Genetics Consultation between ACH and Red Deer,
  Medicine Hat and Lethbridge
• Poison and Drug Information Services
• Telemental Health
• Discharge Planning

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Whats on the Horizon

• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Southern Alberta Renal Program
• Tele-stroke Program
• Trauma Services
• Emergency Services
• Provincial Bone Joint Services
• Foot Clinic

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Telelearning

• Anesthesiology Rounds
• Trauma Rounds
• Renal Rounds
• ICU Rounds
• Lab Services
• Pain Management
• Neurosciences
• Province-wide SACCCHSE Power Breakfasts

• Family Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Pharmacy
• Internal Medicine
• Nursing Best Practice Rounds
• Psychiatry
• Pathology rounds
• Calgary Health Link joint training with Capital
  Health Link

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Whats on the Horizon

• Cardiology
• Family Medicine Residency Training
• Emergency
• Medicine for Managers
• Diagnostic imaging course
• Virtual Classroom - Elluminate

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Major Infrastructure Change

• South Diagnostic and Treatment Center
• Colonel Belcher Hospital Reuse Project (over 30
  services Renal, Community Health, Foot Clinic,
  Mental Health)
• New Alberta Childrens Hospital
• Ward of the 21st Century at Foothills Medical
  Centre

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Usage Indicators

• Hours of Usage
• Number of Sessions
• Number of Attendees (Learning Administrative)
• Number of Patients Professionals Participating
  in Clinical Sessions

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For the 2001/2002 fiscal year a total of 1,357.5
hours of Telehealth services were accessed.
Demand is increasing with 1,971.01 hours of
Telehealth services have been accessed this
service for fiscal 2002/2003 year to date.
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For the 2001/2002 fiscal year a total of 759
Telehealth sessions were held. Demand is
increasing with 898 Telehealth sessions held
fiscal 2002/2003 year to date.
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For the 2001/2002 fiscal year a total of 5,430
health care professionals accessed Telehealth
services. Demand is increasing with 11,513
health care professionals accessing this service
for fiscal 2002/2003 year to date.
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Cost Savings Indicators

• Travel Avoided
• Kilometers
• Cost
• Total Hours
• Staff Savings
• Salary Savings
• FTE Equivalent

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Travel Avoided
April 2001 March 2002
April 2000 March 2001
For the 2001/2002 fiscal year a total 627
individual instances of administrative travel
were avoided. Demand is greatly increasing with a
total of 1311 individual instances of
administrative travel avoided up to the third
quarter of the 2002/2003 fiscal year.