Virtual Care

Ces orientations et les outils connexes visent à aider les cliniciens de soins primaires et les personnes chargées de la planification et de la prestation de soins primaires virtuels à adopter une approche réfléchie et délibérée dans leur utilisation des modalités de soins virtuels. Ils peuvent également être utiles à ceux qui participent à la coordination de la prestation de soins virtuels, comme les assistants de bureau de médecin.

This guidance and related tools are intended to help primary care clinicians and those planning and delivering virtual primary care to be purposeful and deliberate in their use of virtual care modalities. It may also be useful to those involved in coordinating the delivery of virtual care, such as medical office assistants.

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, to inform Ontario’s response. Our mandate is to provide weekly summaries of relevant scientific evidence for the COVID-19 Health Coordination Table of the Province of Ontario, integrating information from existing scientific tables, Ontario’s universities and agencies, and the best global evidence.

The Clinician Change Virtual Care Toolkit shares information and resources of virtual care in practice to support clinicians with the tools they need to provide safe, high quality virtual care.

This toolkit contains:

In July 2021, the Ministry of Health offered one-time funding to Ontario Health Teams (OHTs), ‘In Development Teams’ and other health care organizations to implement, enhance and scale virtual care programs and services. The funding was intended to support the recovery of the health system from Covid-19 by increasing access to services, changing how care is delivered and building digital capacity.

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to an abrupt shift to virtual health care for many patients,including adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Approaches to virtual care thatare successful for people without IDD may need to be adapted for adults with IDD.

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This paper will be presented at the Annual CAHSPR Conference in May 2021.