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Canadian Society of Telehealth

(English only)

The Canadian Society of Telehealth (CST) is the first Canadian non-profit health association devoted to Telehealth. The organization promotes all aspects of telehealth, which is the use of information and communications technologies to deliver health services and transmit health information over both long and short distances.

 

The CST Secretariat Office is located at:
#310 - 4 Cataraqui Street
Kingston, Ontario K7K 1Z7

E-mail: cst@eventsmgt.com
Phone: 613-531-9476
Fax: 613-531-0626
Pamela Lyons, Administrator

 

 

ConnexionSanté/CareConnect

(French/English)

 CareConnect is the telemedicine program connecting more than 50 sites in East and South East Ontario. Through private, high-speed broadband telecommunications, the Network offers a variety of consultation and education services along the continuum of care. It brings care closer to home and enhances accessibility for patients, families and health care professionals.

 

CareConnect Ottawa Office
75 Bruyère Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1N 5C8
Phone: (613) 562-6385
Fax: (613) 562-6355
info@careconnect.org

 

CareConnect Kingston Office
1471 John Counter Blvd, Suite 102
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K7M 8S8
Phone: (613) 542-9619
Fax: (613) 542-4261
info@careconnect.org

 

 

North Network

(English only)

NORTH Network is Canada's busiest telemedicine program. Using live, two-way videoconferencing, NORTH clinicians apply the latest tele-diagnostic instruments - including digital stethoscopes, patient examination cameras, endoscopic equipment and digital imaging facilities - to examine and prescribe treatment so that a remote patient can "visit" an out-of-town specialist from their home community rather than having to travel.

Where is NORTH Network? NORTH Network's telemedicine clinics can be found in more Than 120 telemedicine enabled communities across Ontario.

 

NORTH Network
1090 Don Mills Rd., Suite 500
Toronto, Ontario
M3C 3R6

In Canada call 1-888-34-NORTH

 

 

Northern Ontario Francophone Psychiatric Outreach Program

The Northern Ontario Francophone Psychiatric Outreach Program strives to provide the highest quality francophone psychiatric services to the clients, consumers and personnel of Northern Ontario Community Mental Health programs or other MOH agencies having identified the need for such a service.

 

Contacts:

Dr A. J. Côté

Tel: 613-562-5800 ext 8141

anjcote@uottawa.ca

 

Dr. Katharine Gillis

Tel: 613-737-8955

lbertrand@ottawahospital.on.ca

 

 

Providence Continuing Care Centre - Telepsychiatry

(French/English – Website in English Only)

The Telepsychiatry Service allows clients in rural areas to 'see' a Kingston-based psychiatrist without anyone having to travel long distances. Using the most advanced videoconferencing systems, the service dramatically extends the reach of psychiatrists at Providence Continuing Care Centre (PCCC) Mental Health Services, and Hotel Dieu Hospital, to people throughout Southeastern Ontario. These specialty clinicians care for people of all ages, from Child & Adolescent to acute and chronic Adult Psychiatry. Access to the service is through clinician referral.

 

For more information or to schedule a videoconference please contact

Eddy Lloyd, RN,

Telepsychiatry Coordinator

Tel:  (613) 546-1101 ext. 5707

Email: lloyde@pccchealth.org

 

 

Telehealth and Telepsychiatry Programs at Sick Kids

(English/Some French/Interpreting Services - Website in English only)

For decades, SickKids has cared for children not just from Toronto, but from across the country and around the world. Now, thanks to live two-way videoconferencing, more and more patients who are hundreds of kilometres away are being examined by SickKids experts – without either the patients or the physicians having to leave their communities.

 

For more information on the SickKids Telehealth Program, please call: (416) 813-8808.

 

 

The Telemedicine Networks of Ontario

(English only/French website under construction)

The Telemedicine Networks of Ontario site will enable, support and promote the delivery of healthcare and related services in Ontario via telemedicine through seamless coordination and collaboration between the three partner networks.

 

General Inquiries
Paula Ashley
Communications Officer
416-850-9090  ext. 2202
pashley@northnetwork.com
 

 

Telepsychiatry Outreach Program Toronto

(Several programs across province – Website in English)

The University of Toronto Psychiatric Outreach Program is funded by the North Region Health Care Program Division of the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care to provide psychiatric services and education for those communities which are rural, remote, or are considered underserviced in terms of mental health.

 

 

The Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Programs (OPOP)

(Website in English only)

The Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Programs (OPOP) web site provides information on the collaboration between Departments of Psychiatry at Ontario medical sciences centres and northern Ontario communities. Collaborative efforts include fly-in psychiatric services, continuing medical education programs and academic affiliations between medical schools and psychiatrists practicing in the North. The Extended Campus Program at the University of Western Ontario (UWO) developed this web site as an Information Clearing House on behalf of all participants to reflect these activities in a coordinated fashion, and respectively, to ensure easy communications, coordinated collaboration, and more adequate support for northern communities. Our Web site has been developed to host web pages on behalf of any interested Ontario’s programs that support or provide mental health services to the North.

 

 

Telepsychiatry – Royal Ottawa Health Care Group

(French/English services – French web site under construction)

The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group has been an innovator in the development of telepsychiatry and tele-mental health services and distance education through tele-video. The ROHCG began offering services in 2002 as a partner with Project Outreach, an initiative supported by Health Canada's Canadian Health Inforstructure Partnership Program (CHIPP). The telehealth pilot project phase is complete, and the ROHCG and University of Ottawa's Northern Ontario Francophone Psychiatry Program were applauded by Health Canada for their accomplishments. The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group is a member of the CareConnect Telehealth Network serving clients in Eastern Ontario and working with partners in Champlain and Southeast Ontario districts. 

 

For information on accessing clinical services, education opportunities, or any other telehealth or videoconference services contact 

 

Peter Youell

Coordinator, Telehealth and Education Technologies

Tel:  (613) 722-6521, ext. 6302

 

 

Video Care Southwestern Ontario – Telehealth Network

(English only)

VideoCare enhances patient and health care professional access to health care services, information and education over distance using videoconferencing technologies. VideoCare is an initial step toward a fully integrated Canada-wide telehealth system. We strive to: improve access to health care and wait lists for health services; address the shortage of physicians and other health care providers; provide innovative solutions for the achievement of great efficiencies, cost control and health system sustainability.

 

VideoCare – Southwestern Ontario Telehealth Network
Suite 102, 100 Collip Circle
London, Ontario
N6G 4X8

General Enquiry Email: info@videocare.ca

Phone: (519) 685-8500 ext. 20030