Integrating telehealth into Aboriginal healthcare: the Canadian experience

• Main Authors: Sarah Muttitt, Robert Vigneault, Liz Loewen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: telemedicine; Canada; Indians; north American; Inuit; organization and administration; Wever; inuit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.687.8607; http://www.circumpolarhealthjournal.net/index.php/ijch/article/viewFile/17757/20229?origin%3Dpublication_detail

eHEALTH Telehealth, the use of information communication technologies to de-liver health care over distance, has been identified as a key mechanism for improving access to health services internationally. Canada is well suited to realize the benefits of telehealth particularly for individuals in rem...