Telemedicine

By Angela Gemmill

The Virtual Critical Care Unit at Health Sciences North was honoured recently with the Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Health Quality and Safety.

The provincial award for health care innovation is from Health Quality Ontario.

HSN has been using the video conferencing and electronic medical records technology since May of 2014.

It allows smaller critical care units and emergency departments at 22 hospitals across the Northeast to link up with the team at HSN.

The unit has helped reduce patient tranfers and saved the health care system $1.3-million.