About Telehealth

Telehealth uses videoconferencing technology to connect patients on Vancouver Island to health care services, regardless of where they live. 

Using Telehealth, patients can see and talk to a health care provider over a secure and private network to make appropriate and timely health care decisions.

Benefits

Telehealth offers many benefits to patients and families, as well as healthcare professionals. Benefits include:

• Decreased patient transport

• Reduced specialist travel time

• Increased access to clinical expertise

• Easier access to expert advice

• Reduced isolation of remote communities

• Communication and interaction from virtually anywhere in the world

• More timely advice and intervention

• Reduced waiting time for a visiting specialist

• Better decision-making through peer-to-peer discussions

• Improved community skills and knowledge through on-site education and training