Telemedicine for IBD: Servicing Remote Communities

Learn about how telemedicine is being used to improve access to care for people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in rural and remote communities. The IBD Telemedicine program is part of Crohn's and Colitis Canada's Promoting Access and Care Through Centres of Excellence (PACE) network that brings together leading IBD centers to collectively advance best practices and elevate the standard of care for patients.

 

Speaker:

Peter Habashi is a Registered Nurse and research coordinator at Mount Sinai Hospital working with Dr. Geoffrey Nguyen on the PACE IBD Telemedicine Program.

 
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  • Canada has among the highest incidence rates of Crohn's and colitis in the world.
  • 1 in 140 Canadians lives with Crohn’s or colitis.
  • Families new to Canada are developing these diseases for the first time.
  • Incidence of Crohn’s in Canadian kids under 10 has doubled since 1995.
  • People are most commonly diagnosed before age 30.