Palliser Triangle Health Advisory Council · 11/25/2019  · Support access, quality, efficiency...

Palliser Triangle

Health Advisory Council

Dr. Sarah Hall

Medical Lead, Virtual Health

November 25, 2019

Virtual Health

December 20, 2019

Virtual Health, Who We Are

December 20, 2019

• Catherine KeenanExecutive Director, Medical Affairs

• Shy AmlaniProvincial Director, Virtual Health

• Dr. Jonathan ChoyProvincial Medical Director, Virtual

Health

What is Virtual Health (VH)?

Support access, quality, efficiency

Using virtual innovations and technology

Care provision when the provider and recipient are separated by physical location

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

Virtual Health, Who We Are

December 20, 2019

The Virtual Health program

connects patients to care

providers

Using virtual technologies,

Supporting access to high

quality care that is effective

and efficient.

Virtual Health, Vision

December 20, 2019

Quality Care

Anytime Anywhere

VH Strategic Priorities

Keeping PatientsCloser to Home

Connect CareFull Integration into Clinical Programs

Innovation and

Technology

Standards and

Performance

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

VH Strategic Priorities

Full Integration into Clinical Programs

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

VH Strategic Priorities

Connect Care

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

VH Strategic Priorities

Keeping PatientsCloser to Home

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

VH Strategic Priorities

Innovation and

Technology

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

December 20, 2019

VH Strategic Priorities

Standards and

Performance

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

Virtual Health Partners

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

AHS programs, AHS partners and health initiatives across Alberta

Across the Continuum of Care (hyperacute to community)

Across the lifespan (children, adults, seniors and families)

Multi-disciplinary, multi-specialty

One-time health-related visits to ongoing follow-up

2015/2016

data

Quality Virtual Care: Anytime, Anywhere

Virtual Health Today

December 20, 2019

Virtual Health, Who We Are

December 20, 2019

Telemedicine Rounding And

Consultation-Kids (TRAC-K)

• Innovative delivery model

• Medicine Hat Regional Hospital

bed occupancy rates

• Keeping children admitted close

to home

• Virtual encounters:Allied Health

Subspecialists

Virtual Health, Where We Need To Go

December 20, 2019

Rather than programs approaching us with

local ideas, VH bring a coordinated and

systematic approach to virtual care into the

health care system

Mandate integration of VH into clinical

programs

To increase access to under-served areas

Such mandates as mental health

We now live in a society where VH is no

longer a novel idea, but a necessary

component of care delivery

Virtual Health, Where We Need To Go

December 20, 2019

Risks to not addressing this now

We run the risk of falling behind the

technologies

Patients and providers are at risk of doing

their own virtual encounters

Uncoordinated, episodic, risking

fragmentation of patient care,

compromising the patient’s medical home

Patients first, economic climate – this is our

opportunity

Thank You!

December 20, 2019

VirtualHealth.info@ahs.ca