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Jul 7, 2021 · The policy framework will also be critical to ensuring that governments are well-positioned to address/avoid unintended consequences arising from the widespread uptake and use of virtual care (e.g., addressing incentive structures to ensure appropriate mix of virtual and face-to-face visits; ensuring access to in-person care for rural, remote and underserved urban areas; and implementing ...
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Jun 29, 2021 · The Task Team on Equitable Access to Virtual Care (Equity Task Team) was created under the Virtual Care Expert Working Group with a mandate to develop a principle-based framework for equitable access to virtual care and provide guidance and recommendations on the concrete actions that FPT governments can take to ensure that virtual care promotes equity as a critical dimension of quality care.
- 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.
National maturity model to describe stages of maturity in deployment of virtual care. Canadian lexicon of virtual care and sub-domain areas. These resources will help leaders: Sustain momentum and spur innovation. Create alignment, direction, and decision-support in virtual care across the country. Develop business cases for the deployment of ...
format.2 Now that virtual care has become a more widely-used and accepted modality of care in Canada, there is a need to ensure that policies and systems are aligned to enable ongoing equitable and safe use of virtual care to complement traditional face-to-face models in primary care. According to work undertaken by various virtual care
Virtual care : policy framework. Publication type : Monograph : Language [English] Other language editions : Format : Electronic : Electronic document : View H22-4-27-2021-eng.pdf (PDF, 1.21 MB). Note(s) Issued also in French under title: Soins virtuels : cadre stratégique. "A product of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Virtual Care ...
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The Working Group members recognize the challenges and opportunities that exist across all jurisdictions as a result of accelerated adoption and deployment of virtual care services due to COVID-19: Lack of common lexicon to describe virtual care services across Canada. Gaps in standardized approaches to deployment of virtual care and continued ...
