Virtual Care Systems Diagram Planning (3.1)
Flows
Policy/Regulation
Ministry of Health
Professional Colleges
Standards/Guidelines
Privacy (e.g. PHIPA)
Development
design: must adhere to policy/regulation
consultation
testing: must adhere to policy/regulation
Deployment
Practitioners & Admin
training for admin, practitioners
support
Patients
training
feedback mechanism
support
Virtual Care Activities
book appointments
virtual health activity (e.g. visit, monitoring)
connect & communicate
collect health information measures (e.g. temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar)/diagnostics
care/treatment decision (e.g. prescription, referral, requisition)
follow-up booking
Stakeholders/Actors
Clinicians:
Doctors (Primary care, specialist, ER)
Nurses
Extended Care (e.g. physiotherapists, occupational therapists)
Patients
rural/remote
urban
vulnerable
other patients
Governing Bodies
Provincial Governments (e.g. health ministries, accessibility ministries)
privacy commision
Federal Government
Professional Colleges
Considerations for Patient Setting
adequate connectivity
access to devices
access to privacy