FPP2 - FROM TELEMEDICINE TO VIRTUAL CARE
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100%
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Who is considered to be the Canadian telemedicine pioneer? Correct
Answers Dr. Maxwell House
What were his contributions to telemedicine? (5) Correct Answers 1.
Founding the telemedicine/telehealth program at Memorial University in
mid-1970s
2. Overcoming physician's skepticism and patients' wariness
3. Creating a telemedicine system that now includes 65 locations
4. Allowing more than 1000 consultations provided through
telemedicine a month
5. Enabling distance health education programs for diabetic patients and
parents of deaf children
What is the difference between telemedicine and telehealth? Correct
Answers Although the terms are used synonymously, telehealth is
broader in focus. It may include educational rounds, remote patient
monitoring and mental health supports
Have priority areas for telemedicine been identified by governments?
Correct Answers Key priority areas include Indigenous communities,
official language minorities and northern remote communities
Private sector telemedicine Correct Answers Telemedicine services exist
beyond publicly funded healthcare, i.e company involved in the
, provision of healthcare services off shore such as fishing vessels and oil
rigs
When was telemedicine developed? Correct Answers 1970s
What is very important to ensure with telehealth? Correct Answers
Ensuring privacy, being provided in a safe and secure environment
T/F: Telehealth can be accessed by patients and their loved ones Correct
Answers False, can only be accessed by authorized health care
professionals
In 2014, what was the result of the Canada Health Infoway annual
tracking survey? Correct Answers Consumer health solution priorities
which identified e-health solutions
What was the significance of these solutions? Correct Answers
Instrumental in developing the favourable conditions that were
necessary to pivot to virtual care in 2020
What were the 5 consumer health solution priorities? Correct Answers 1.
E-visits
2. E-views
3. E-renewal/e-refill
4. E-scheduling
5. Remote patient monitoring
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100%
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Who is considered to be the Canadian telemedicine pioneer? Correct
Answers Dr. Maxwell House
What were his contributions to telemedicine? (5) Correct Answers 1.
Founding the telemedicine/telehealth program at Memorial University in
mid-1970s
2. Overcoming physician's skepticism and patients' wariness
3. Creating a telemedicine system that now includes 65 locations
4. Allowing more than 1000 consultations provided through
telemedicine a month
5. Enabling distance health education programs for diabetic patients and
parents of deaf children
What is the difference between telemedicine and telehealth? Correct
Answers Although the terms are used synonymously, telehealth is
broader in focus. It may include educational rounds, remote patient
monitoring and mental health supports
Have priority areas for telemedicine been identified by governments?
Correct Answers Key priority areas include Indigenous communities,
official language minorities and northern remote communities
Private sector telemedicine Correct Answers Telemedicine services exist
beyond publicly funded healthcare, i.e company involved in the
, provision of healthcare services off shore such as fishing vessels and oil
rigs
When was telemedicine developed? Correct Answers 1970s
What is very important to ensure with telehealth? Correct Answers
Ensuring privacy, being provided in a safe and secure environment
T/F: Telehealth can be accessed by patients and their loved ones Correct
Answers False, can only be accessed by authorized health care
professionals
In 2014, what was the result of the Canada Health Infoway annual
tracking survey? Correct Answers Consumer health solution priorities
which identified e-health solutions
What was the significance of these solutions? Correct Answers
Instrumental in developing the favourable conditions that were
necessary to pivot to virtual care in 2020
What were the 5 consumer health solution priorities? Correct Answers 1.
E-visits
2. E-views
3. E-renewal/e-refill
4. E-scheduling
5. Remote patient monitoring
