After COVID-19, screens and phones will remain vital to care, experts predict Imagine… using a computer and webcam to remotely diagnose a serious medical condition. Or give breastfeeding advice to a new mother. Or help a stressed-out teenager manage his anxiety. It...
Telehealth is here to stay, and its successful deployment during the COVID-19 pandemic may prove to be a silver lining of the public-health crisis, according to Quebec’s major doctors’ groups. Leaders of the federations representing the province’s general...
All it took was a few moments for Dr. Mark Karanofsky to look at his patient and realize something was seriously wrong: Antonio José Santiago was clearly walking with a limp, and the right side of his face was drooping noticeably. A stroke—no doubt about it! Quickly,...
In mid-April, six weeks after giving birth, Nicole-Ann Shery cradled her daughter, Kayla, in her arms and huddled at home in front of her computer screen for her final—and sometimes joyously tearful—post-partum visit with Kathleen McDonald, the midwife who had coached...
Comfort of home helps clients open up to their therapists Compared to many other branches of medicine, psychiatry might appear to be a dubious candidate for telehealth, where bonds are forged with screens and keyboards, rather than in the privacy and intimacy of the...
The Telehealth Intervention Program for Isolated Older Adults (TIP-OA) has been introduced to help elderly individuals, who are likelier to experience anxiety and depression as a result of the lockdown during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “We know that older...