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- Policy-makers, health care providers and patients require more data and information about virtual care and its impacts on health system spending and resources, and on patient outcomes to inform future investments and approaches to delivering health care services virtually.
This report explores the current landscape of Canadian virtual care data and information. It includes a snapshot of available virtual care data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the provinces and territories, and pan-Canadian health care organizations.
- Virtual care in Canada | CIHI - Canadian Institute for Health ...
Policy-makers, health care providers and patients require...
- The Expansion of Virtual Care in Canada: New Data and Information
Executive summary. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
- Virtual care in Canada | CIHI - Canadian Institute for Health ...
Policy-makers, health care providers and patients require more data and information about virtual care and its impacts on health system spending and resources, and on patient outcomes to inform future investments and approaches to delivering health care services virtually.
- Patient and community-centered approaches. Many patients love virtual care. As one provider said, “Patients don’t want to come into the office. They are very resistant to that if it isn’t clinically necessary.”
- Equity in Access. Access and Equity. At the start of the pandemic, a dramatic loss of in-person access to care providers was soon followed by an unprecedented suspension of formal and informal rules, and then by the introduction of fee codes and tariffs for virtual care.
- Remuneration. The fee schedule or tariffs were mentioned by the vast majority of people interviewed as being one of the key issues to be solved moving forward.
- Quality, appropriateness, and safety. Quality, appropriateness, and safety are paramount considerations as we transition to including virtual care as a permanent element of Canada’s health care system.
Executive summary. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s health care systems have launched new or expanded virtual care oferings. In this report, survey data and case studies show how Canada responded to the sudden rise in demand for virtual care.
Nov 14, 2023 · For many, virtual consultations provided a safe and convenient alternative to in-person appointments within the context of COVID-19. Survey results show that Canadians increasingly used virtual consultations (by phone or by video) as an alternate means to access the healthcare services they needed.
According to Canada Health Infoway data published in June 2021, rates of virtual care use in Canada rose from 10%–20% in 2019 to 60% of all health care visits across provider categories in April 2020, falling back to 40% of all visits in 2021.
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Jun 29, 2021 · As governments look to embed virtual care as a permanent feature of publicly funded health systems, the Equity Task Team urges jurisdictions to deliberately design and implement virtual care in a way that enhances equity and more broadly supports a more equitable, publicly funded health care system.
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