P.E.I.'s Western Hospital telehealth pilot delivers in-patient physician care remotely

Health PEI is piloting a tele-rounding model to support in-patient care at Western Hospital with telehealth company Maple. The company uses a tele-rounding platform for physicians who are licensed in PEI but located in other areas of the province or country to care for in-patients remotely. There are nine physicians participating in the tele-rounding pilot, including three physicians from P.E.I. The pilot began in August and over 1,200 tele-rounding consults were performed on 60 patients over the course of their stay. In the first two months of the pilot, 92% of the hospital’s in-patients received care using this new tele-rounding model.