Virtual health care certainly existed prior to the pandemic, but overburdened hospitals through the COVID\u002D19 pandemic popularized it
Maple then made headlines after Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. announced in September 2020 that it would invest $75 million in the company. Maple later acquired Calgary-based Wello, yet another virtual care service.
Prior to the pandemic, there was a “dearth of data” showing that “most Canadians did not know about the availability of virtual visits to physicians.”Article content The pandemic has allowed employees to ponder why they have to work from the office if they can produce the same output at home, leading to the work-from-home revolution. COVID-19 has had the same impact on the medical world, said Jadad.Article content
“We have this old fashioned model, which is that the licence is province by province,” said Raisa Deber, professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.Also, for some, the proliferation of virtual care might signal widespread privatization, making it less affordable for Canadians.
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