WHO WE ARE

e-KSS™  Inc. was formed in Montreal, Canada, in 2006 from a shared  vision of senior professionals  with  long tenures in their fields of expertise and a belief on long-term  approach  to  relationship building for sustainable collaboration. We engage in knowledge exchange aimed at bridging the gap between a community's assessment of its education and health care needs and their ability to enact changes. 

e-KSS™ Inc. corporate membership is composed of Officers and Members at Large according to and regulated by General By-Laws consonant to e-KSS™ incorporation under the Canada Corporations Act, Part II. A Board of Directors oversees e-KSS™ Inc. results by recommending  and advising on issues ranging from adequate business directions to funding efforts and partnership possibilities with a view to strengthening the Corporation and its long-term sustainability. The Board convenes at an Annual General Meeting during the fiscal year's last quarter.

• Luiz C. Esteves, President & Executive Director
• To Be Announced, Executive Vice-President
• Julian Robbins, Vice-President, Research
• Gary Johnson, Director, Technologies
• Rosangela Esteves, Corporate Secretary

In the quest to provide health assistance to those far away from healthcare centres, advances in technology permitted clinical acts to be performed at a distance, referred to as 'telemedicine'. The evolution to an ensemble of remotely providing training and education of medical professionals, remote patient diagnostic and monitoring, and the remote collection of health data defines then what we label as 'telehealth'.

Telehealth is but a step comprised of a broad range of technologies. Before telehealth solutions can be enacted though, there has to be crucial previous steps of needs assessment and, above all, community engagement to accepting the changes it represents to the community. The ensemble defines the three pilars of telehealth with change management as pivotal to the success of telehealth solutions.

By employing Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), when telehealth solutions get implemented they do so through networks with enough (broadband) capacity to answer needs of telemedicine applications, telediagnostics, teletriage, teleconsultations, telemonitoring and telehome care. Telehealth solutions can increasingly be coupled with secure and seamless access to diagnostic imaging and electronic health records (EHR). Telehealth is e-KSS™ 'raison d'être'. 

Telehealth implementation makes possible training doctors and nurses at a distance to keep them abreast of latest medical knowledge, the tele-education of new local professionals, and data collection of health statistics - all within a community's reach. Telehealth capabilities allow patients in the distant community to receive:

(a) diagnostics from experts in large centres up-to-date in latest practices

(b) second opinion from experts beyond their communities

(c) higher number of exams beyond the capabilities of local providers 

(d) telehome care to support an aging population