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Telehealth is an untapped resource with immense potential to address bottlenecks and pressures in the health-care delivery system.

Opinion Nov 28, 2022 by Manjot Sandila Omouyi Omoike ‘Please don’t come back’: Using virtual care to prevent readmissions 0 Comments Share on: Tim’s wound was gaping when I saw it. As Tim’s primary nurse, I helped settle him into his room after he arrived at the southern Ontario hospital via air ambulance. Tim had undergone open-heart surgery the month prior and had left the unit more than three weeks earlier with a well-aligned, healthy-looking breastbone incision. Although Tim was stoic, that same incision was now gaping and oozing. I asked myself what could have led to this. Was the educati

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