CPSA is committed to ensuring physicians have the capacity to provide quality patient care in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Central to this effort is the importance of limiting viral spread by:
- reducing unnecessary patient and physician travel within Alberta and between Alberta and other jurisdictions;
- reducing unnecessary patient presentations to health facilities, and;
- enabling physicians to provide remote patient service within Alberta or from other
jurisdictions.
The adoption of virtual care practices can help achieve these goals by enabling the remote:
- screening of patients who are worried or ill;
- care of patients with suspected COVID-19;
- care for other patients in your practice with the intent of decreasing exposure to those who may be ill; and
- care of patients when the physician is self-isolated but well enough to work.
