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A Remote Presence Technology Pilot Focusing on Pediatric Patients in Pelican Narrows is Showing Promise.

 

Saskatchewan’s Rural and Remote Health Minister Greg Ottenbreit visited the Pelican Narrows health facility last week.  He attended a demonstration of the technology through a live connection with Saskatoon.

             

Remote presence technology enables a health provider to perform real time assessment, diagnosis and management of patients from a remote location through a robot.  In 2014 the government provided funding to Northern Medical Services to purchase the equipment for this pilot.  Pelican Narrows, which is about 2 hours northwest of Flin Flon, was selected due to its remote location and large population of children.

             

One of the pilot leaders Dr. Ivar Mendez says this pilot project has demonstrated that 63 percent of acutely ill children could be treated effectively in their own community by using this technology adding before the availability of remote presence those children would have been transported to Saskatoon for treatment.

             

The minister announced the government has committed an additional 500 thousand dollars to expand the use of remote presence technology in Saskatchewan’s north.

 

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