Report on Enhancing Health Care Access in Rural & Remote Communities

[Alies Maybee]

Health Reform Observer is pleased to publish “Enhancing Health Care Access in Rural and Remote Communities: An Environmental Scan of Virtual Health Innovations in British Columbia,” by Brian Martin, Alison James, Cheryl Mitchell, Nelly D. Oelke, Anurag Singh, and Femke Hoekstra.

The article is available here: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/hro-ors/article/view/6688 and the abstract is below.

This is the second article in our special issue Implementing Digital Health Tools in Canada: policy lessons & future focus areas, edited by Carolyn Steele Gray, Nelly D. Oelke, Dominique Gagnon, and Alies Maybee.

[Kim Locke]

@Alies-Maybee Do you know if there has been any articles like this around healthcare in rural Nova Scotia? My mother has uh, a monster eating her brain, the best way I can explain it, and trying to get her an appt. just with a GP and bloodwork in her area is really hard

[Alies Maybee]

@Kim-Locke sorry for the delay, I don't know of anything in NS. Try reaching out to some of the PAN members in NS to see if they know.