Cisco helps CAMH increase virtual care during Covid-19 crisis

TORONTO — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto has been able to drastically increase the number of virtual care visits it can offer to patients during the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to Cisco’s Webex cloud-based conferencing platform, said the hospital Monday. CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and last year, it provided virtual care to more than 3,000 patients from over 550 communities across Ontario. This year, from March to April alone, CAMH’s virtual care visits increased from approximately 350 per month to almost 3,000 per month, an increase of more than 750%, says the...