Putting health first with virtual care

Benefits for employees, employers include improved access, lower costs

Putting health first with virtual care
Virtual care is no longer regarded as simple telemedicine or an adjunct to face-to-face encounter. Credit: Wright Studio/Shutterstock [photo/]

It might come as a surprise to some Canadians that public sector health-care spending (as a percentage of total health spending) is on the low end compared to other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries — with one-third of health-care expenditures actually coming from private sector funding, according to a 2015 report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

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