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Telehealth in remote Northern Territory: Bridging the gap

Click here to access article In this Letter to the Editor, Quilty and colleagues explain how Telehealth provides an ideal model of care in remote areas of the Northern Territory.    

Making Telehealth Sustainable in South Australia

        Making Telehealth Sustainable in SA In this presentation, Dr Victoria Wade, Clinical Director, Adelaide Unicare e-Health and Telehealth Unit Research Fellow, Discipline of General Practice The University of Adelaide, discusses some of the key drivers needed for successful implementation of Telehealth services. For further detail on the Unicare project, and additional Telehealth resources, [...]

Telehealth means care closer to home for Central Otago children with diabetes

          View article This article describes a new paediatric diabetes telemedicine clinic, introduced by NZ Southern DHB paediatric endocrinologist Dr Ben Wheeler (pictured above). The clinic means that Central Otago children under Dr Wheeler’s care can consult with him via a half hour video conference in the clinic at the local hospital, [...]

5 Minutes with a Telehealth team: The physician and the administrator

          View article 5 Minutes with a Telehealth team: The physician and the administrator (May 2015) The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria with around 4,000 staff supporting 250,000 Specialist Clinic appointments. In 2011, the RCH began offering Telehealth video consultations where these might [...]

Cost savings from a telemedicine model of care in northern Queensland, Australia

View Document Cost savings from a telemedicine model of care in northern Queensland, Australia (Sept 2013) In this article, the researchers report the results of a cost analysis of a telemedicine model for cancer care (teleoncology) in northern Queensland, Australia. They compared the teleoncology model with the usual model of care from the perspective of [...]

Medico-legal aspects of telehealth services for Victorian Public Health Services

          View document Medico legal aspects for telehealth services for Victorian Public Health Services (April 2015) The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned DLA Piper to develop a resource for health services and clinicians that aims to explain the current legal framework as it applies to telehealth. Medico-legal aspects of telehealth services [...]

Inquiry into telehealth services in Queensland

 View document Queensland Parliamentary Health and Community Services Committee – Inquiry into telehealth services in Queensland (2014)      

The introduction of web-based video-consultation in a paediatric acute care setting

  View Article The introduction of web-based video-consultation in a paediatric acute care setting 2013 RCH Melbourne Susan C Jury, Amanda M Walker and Andrew J Kornberg. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2013; 19 (7), 383 – 387.  

Data review of an ongoing telehealth programme in a tertiary paediatric hospital

View Article  Data review of an ongoing telehealth programme in a tertiary paediatric hospital (2014 RCH Melbourne) Susan C Jury and Andrew J Kornberg. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2014; 20: 384  

Implementing telehealth as core business in health services

View Article Implementing telehealth as core business in health services Sabe Sabesan and Jenny Kelly. Med J Aust 2015; 202 (5): 231-232.