Health Services | Telehealth 
Telehealth in Heartland Health Region-Linking Communities for Health
Telehealth Saskatchewan is a Saskatchewan Health program endorsed by The Action Plan for Saskatchewan Health Care as an effective approach to improve access to health services.
Telehealth Saskatchewan uses communication and information technology to support the delivery of clinical care and professional education services. Using live, two-way videoconferencing, health care providers can apply the latest tele-diagnostic instruments, including digital stethoscopes, patient examination cameras, and digital imaging, to enable a remote patient to ‘visit' an out-of-town health care provider from their home community rather than having to travel.
Telehealth technology is used by the public and Heartland Health Region staff for all health related applications including appropriate clinical consultations,education and meetings.
Telehealth Saskatchewan not only connects sites within its own provincial network, but it can link with other select sites provincially, nationally, and internationally.
Telehealth Saskatchewan strives to make your telehealth consult as close to what your face to face appointment would have been as we can. It is a real-time videoconference connection, so you and your specialist will be able to see and hear each other just as though you were in the same room. If needed, we also have the use of our patient examination cameras which allow us to give your specialist a close up view of a wound, etc. as well as a stethoscope to allow the specialist to listen to breath sounds and heart tones.
Telehealth Saskatchewan supports ongoing clinics in areas such as:
- Rural and Remote Memory Clinic
- Orthopaedic ADAPT clinical education
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pedicatric Rheumatology
- Rehabilitation
- Stoma Therapy
- Ostomy Clincs
- Renal Dialysis
- Chronic Renal Insufficiency
- Adult Psychology
- Genetics
- Wound Care
How do I access Telehealth for health services?
To access health services through Telehealth, you must be referred to a specialist by your medical doctor. You do this by asking your doctor if this would be an appropriate consultation by Telehealth. If so, they will make a request to the specialist for a Telehealth consult. The specialist's office will then arrange the date and time, and you will be notified by letter. A few days before the appointment, the Telehealth Coordinator will contact you to answer any questions that you may have and to explain to you where the Telehealth suite is, when to come into your site, etc.
Where can I access Telehealth services in Heartland Health Region?
Heartland currently has 8 telehealth sites – Kindersley (Kindersley Hospital, and Kindersley Corporate Office), Outlook Health Center, Rosetown and District Health Center, Unity Health Center, Biggar Hospital, Davidson Health Center and our newest site Eston Health Centre.
St. Joseph's Health Center in Macklin is our developmental site and will be up and running sometime in the spring of 2012.
What other applications can Telehealth be used for?
Telehealth can be used for a variety of purposes other than clinical, including:
- Education for public on living with chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, managing medications, etc.
- Education for health professionals.
- Admistrative – meetings that could include professional associations and working groups, focus groups, etc., within our Health Region, the province and outside of the province.
Upcoming Telehealth Sessions in the Heartland Health Region:
Feb 22 Herbal Medication Use in Diabetes
To learn what is happening Heartland Telehealth, click on the link below to read our quarterly newsletter:
Telehealth Today August 2011 Newsletter
For more information about Telehealth Services in Heartland Health Region, contact the Telehealth Coordinator at 306-463-6150 ext 304 or by email at adrienne.wendt@hrha.sk.ca. or visit www.health.gov.sk.ca/telehealth .
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