Telehealth

In recent years, governments and healthcare organizations have been challenged to meet rising public expectations to find physicians willing to work in rural and remote communities while serving larger regions. To address these needs, physicians are increasingly relying on technology to see more patients over greater distances and provide better care. One of the critical technologies increasingly relied upon by jurisdictions across the country is telehealth.

Allstream understands. That’s why we provide telehealth solutions that consist of information and communication technology (ICT) that can be used to deliver health services, expertise and information over distance. Our solutions include web-based and video-based applications and can be delivered in real-time (live) or through store-and-forward (record now, view later) mode over an IP network. With the shift to IP from ISDN, applications can be run concurrently with video-conferencing to deliver a complete telehealth solution to a wide base of users, including:

• Telehealth networks
• Government ministries
• Regional health authorities
• Regional health centres
• Community health centres
• Pharmaceutical detailing support organizations
• Provincial and private home care facilities
• Long-term health care facilities
• Diagnostic services specialists
• Mental health specialists
• Remote speech pathologists
• Medical schools
  

Our Approach

Allstream follows a sound project management and integration process to deliver a telehealth solution that meets your specific needs. We can help you:

• Understand the health problem being solved with a telehealth system such as acute care, chronic care or health education
• Determine stakeholders that are affected by the problem
• Initially introduce a telehealth pilot without affecting processes at the central acute care facility and investigate process improvement and interoperability once the adoption rate rises
• Formulate a telehealth business case to obtain funding
• Develop a teleheath implementation plan, shared vision and strategy
• Determine health outcome measurements
• Develop interoperability with the Electronic Health Record of the host organization
• Develop telehealth operations process and procedures
• Integrate your remote sites and base site, and test systems and communication between sites
• Test telemedicine equipment and/or your full system
• Obtain CSA approval if required for individual pieces and the system
  

The Benefits

With a telehealth solution from Allstream, you can:

• Reduce time spent traveling, which in turn reduces costs and risks
• Share medical expertise across a large region
• Improve health outcomes by keeping people in their communities or connected to their communit
• Increase the number of people served
  

The Allstream Advantage

Allstream is both a network and application company that understands how to optimize the two to help health care providers deliver optimal efficiency and achieve improved health outcomes. We provide services to help you build your business case for funding, build your actual system and manage your system if you don’t want to manage it yourself. Working with leading partners, we’re ideally positioned to provide you with a complete health care roadmap. In fact, Allstream (MTS Allstream) has implemented telehealth solutions in the province of Manitoba and has been recently been named as a vendor of record in Saskatchewan. Allstream also has the security experience and capability to meet or exceed your jurisdiction’s security requirements to meet privacy laws.

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