Mobile remote-presence devices for point-of-care health care delivery

Mendez, Ivar; Hof, Michiel C. Van den

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“…Of particular promise is the use of remote-presence devices in providing acute care, chronic disease management and continuing education [30]. In Labrador, Canada, the use of a roving robot in a remote community connected to a physician in the regional hospital has been shown to be well accepted by providers and patients, and have reduced the cost of aeromedical evacuations [31].…”

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Comparing health care workforce in circumpolar regions: patterns, trends and challenges

Young

Fedkina

Chatwood

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Background: The eight Arctic States exhibit substantial health disparities between their remote northernmost regions and the rest of the country. This study reports on the trends and patterns in the supply and distribution of physicians, dentists and nurses in these 8 countries and 25 regions and addresses issues of comparability, data gaps and policy implicationsMethods: We accessed publicly available databases and performed three types of comparisons: (1) among the 8 Arctic States; (2) within each Arctic State, between the northern regions and the rest of the country; (3) among the 25 northern regions. The unit of comparison was density of health workers per 100,000 inhabitants, and the means of three 5-year periods from 2000 to 2014 were computed.Results: The Nordic countries consistently exceed North America in the density of all three categories of health professionals, whereas Russia reports the highest density of physicians but among the lowest in terms of dentists and nurses.The largest disparities between “north” and “south” are observed in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut of Canada for physicians, and in Greenland for all three categories. The disparity is much less pronounced in the northern regions of Nordic countries, while Arctic Russia tends to be oversupplied in all categories.Conclusions: Despite efforts and standardisation of definitions by international organisations such as OECD, it is difficult to obtain an accurate and comparable estimate of the health workforce even in the basic categories of physicians, dentists and nurses . The use of head counts is particularly problematic in jurisdictions that rely on short-term visiting staff. Comparing statistics also needs to take into account the health care system, especially where primary health care is nurse-based.List of Abbreviations ADA: American Dental Association; AHRF: Area Health Resource File; AMA: American Medical Association; AO: Autonomous Okrug; AVI: Aluehallintovirasto; CHA: Community Health Aide; CHR: Community Health Representative; CHW: Community Health Worker; CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information; DO: Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine; FTE: Full Time Equivalent; HPDB: Health Personnel Database; MD: Doctor of Medicine; NOMESCO: Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee; NOSOSCO: Nordic Social Statistical Committee; NOWBASE: Nordic Welfare Database; NWT: Northwest Territories; OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; RN: Registered Nurse; SMDB: Scott’s Medical Database; WHO: World Health Organization

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Comparing health care workforce in circumpolar regions: patterns, trends and challenges

Young

Fedkina

Chatwood

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…Over the past 10 years, several successful pilot projects in northern communities in Saskatchewan have set the stage for transforming the provision of health services (5)(6)(7)11). These pilots included partnering with the First Nations leaders and health care providers, in the communities as well as in the urban setting, to make linkages between on-and off-reserve services possible (6).…”

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“…All authors are involved in a number of these initiatives. Information on these pilot projects was supplemented with literature review and consultations with colleagues at the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB), Health Canada and lead physicians for services to the northern communities (5,6,9,(11)(12)(13)15).…”

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“…A group of community health nurses across Saskatchewan were provided computer tablets to enhance their ability to access online clinical, public health nursing and education tools for patients for whom they provide outreach care. Preliminary results indicate that this pilot project has enabled nurses to have quick access to various resources while using these tablets during provision of mobile/outreach care in the communities (5,7,11).…”

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“…The results demonstrated that the technique was safe, clinically efficacious and cost-effective, with 63% of the acutely ill children treated in their own community. Over the past 10 years, Mendez has been a champion of the use of this remote technique and has run several successful pilots, both in northern communities of Saskatchewan and around the world (5,6,9,11,13). The use of remote-presence robotics and other technologies has set the stage for transforming the provision of health services.…”

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Mobile remote-presence devices for point-of-care health care delivery

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Comparing health care workforce in circumpolar regions: patterns, trends and challenges

Comparing health care workforce in circumpolar regions: patterns, trends and challenges

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