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<blockquote data-quote="Mamaof5" data-source="post: 369954"><p>Telepsychiatry is done through video conference. We have this option here in our little town because we don't have a pedi psychiatrist here. So they use resources like teleconferencing technology to communicate with Sick Kids Toronto (best dang hospie for kids in Canada if you ask me along with Erin Oaks for disabled children). The worker with AFS (our pedi mental health unit) is with us when the conference happens to take notes and is a go between (read advocate, and she is awesome) with families and the Sick Kids. doctor W from Sick Kids studied at John Hopkins apparently, she's the top of the top from what doctor J said.</p><p></p><p>So basically Telepsych is like being in Toronto without being physically there. It does have it's limitations at times (like him not being able to see her eyes for the macrophaging but reading it in a report along with being able to see the brow ridge and eyes spacing through video - spotted it right away). Their systems (computers) are all interlinked too, so when one doctor files a report, with our consent, all of the circle of care professionals can read the reports and see the data. It's great, we're so small a town that we have very few resources in town so this really gives us a leg up and great outside resources at our door steps. I love that they have it. doctor M comes in twice to three times a week from The Suds (Sudbury) to Elliot Lake specifically for the AFS involved families. Community Living and the Health Unit are also on this computer system so one intake gets spread between all the professionals. It's kind of neat the technology they use.</p><p></p><p>C (our advocate and worker) is awesome, she rocks. Great woman, compassionate and very passionate about her work and "her kids" so to speak. Even the Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech path are on the computer system. The NP from Sick Kids will be seeing her too, as well as the one from Suds (We don't have an MRI machine here in Elliot Lake, or a CT Scan - we have to travel to The Suds or the Sault to get that done). Even Children's Rehab is on the system - a click away from everyone. They really make that technology work well for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mamaof5, post: 369954"] Telepsychiatry is done through video conference. We have this option here in our little town because we don't have a pedi psychiatrist here. So they use resources like teleconferencing technology to communicate with Sick Kids Toronto (best dang hospie for kids in Canada if you ask me along with Erin Oaks for disabled children). The worker with AFS (our pedi mental health unit) is with us when the conference happens to take notes and is a go between (read advocate, and she is awesome) with families and the Sick Kids. doctor W from Sick Kids studied at John Hopkins apparently, she's the top of the top from what doctor J said. So basically Telepsych is like being in Toronto without being physically there. It does have it's limitations at times (like him not being able to see her eyes for the macrophaging but reading it in a report along with being able to see the brow ridge and eyes spacing through video - spotted it right away). Their systems (computers) are all interlinked too, so when one doctor files a report, with our consent, all of the circle of care professionals can read the reports and see the data. It's great, we're so small a town that we have very few resources in town so this really gives us a leg up and great outside resources at our door steps. I love that they have it. doctor M comes in twice to three times a week from The Suds (Sudbury) to Elliot Lake specifically for the AFS involved families. Community Living and the Health Unit are also on this computer system so one intake gets spread between all the professionals. It's kind of neat the technology they use. C (our advocate and worker) is awesome, she rocks. Great woman, compassionate and very passionate about her work and "her kids" so to speak. Even the Occupational Therapist (OT) and speech path are on the computer system. The NP from Sick Kids will be seeing her too, as well as the one from Suds (We don't have an MRI machine here in Elliot Lake, or a CT Scan - we have to travel to The Suds or the Sault to get that done). Even Children's Rehab is on the system - a click away from everyone. They really make that technology work well for them. [/QUOTE]
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