Everyone deserves quality healthcare no matter where you live. Unfortunately, many remote, regional, and less mobile Australians do not have access to the same quality of healthcare as people in metro areas. That was, until now.
The Visionflex ‘ProEx Telehealth Hub’ was designed to connect isolated patients to base hospitals or to a specialist/consultant to provide a higher level of care and fast diagnosis. This reduces the need for expensive and difficult transportation for a face to face consultation.
With the development of the ProEx unit now complete, we are excited to deliver the first systems to the Royal Flying Doctors Service, the Australian Antarctic Division, the Alaskan Telehealth Board, NSW & QLD Health, the Justice Health Department and private clinicians around the country with many more due to roll out soon. For more information please go here
TELEHEALTH SURVEY
We are launching a monthly members survey - have your vote and see what your colleagues have to say. Please contribute to the survey below.
I believe a national telehealth strategy would improve the way we implement telehealth locally.
Threshold of A New Era in Diagnostics: Philips Lumify Portable Ultrasound Review
In the future, a midwife could do an ultrasound of a high-risk pregnancy in the comfort of the mother’s home, a doctor with a backpack could examine entire refugee camps, or emergency services could diagnose trauma patients at an accident scene. It’s all possible with portable ultrasound machines. It’s peak technological performance. That’s why The Medical Futurist got thrilled when Philips sent us their Lumify system for testing. Check out our Philips Lumify portable ultrasound review below. Read more here
Drought mental health support now to include telehealth consults with local rural doctors
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA), National Farmers Federation (NFF), the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) have strongly welcomed the Coalition Government's announcement to provide additional financial support to drought-affected farming families, including $11.4 million in mental health support initiatives. For more information go here
BRAND NEW WORKSHOPS AT SFT-18 Mon 22 October 3.30pm
Optional workshops will be held at the Vibe Hotel Darwin and are for delegates who have purchased an additional ticket to attend a workshop.
Optional Workshop 3
Location: Mauna Loa Room, Vibe Hotel
Workshop Title: Beyond the clinic: transforming your practice with video consultations
Presenter: Silvia Pfeiffer, Coviu Global Pty Ltd
Optional Workshop 4
Location: Zealandia Room, Vibe Hotel
Workshop Title: Fundamentals of telehealth evaluation
This workshop is for those interested in the key elements to consider when evaluating a telehealth service. Topics will include how to formulate robust evaluation questions, why to use an evaluation framework and which frameworks to consider, and the different types of data you can collect to answer your questions.
More workshops availablehere Register for SFT-18here
Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT-18) Conference Is Back With a New Workshop Program !
The University of Queensland's Centre for Online Health in conjunction with the Australasian Telehealth Society is pleased to invite you to the Successes and Failures in Telehealth Conference 22-24 October 2018, at the Darwin Convention Centre with a series of new workshops with more information being announced soon.
SFT-18 attracts 200 delegates every year, including academics, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, government representatives, policy advisers, health Informatics and information technology leaders, educators and managers. SFT is a 2-day interactive experience that promotes engagement, innovation, critical debate and future planning.
For more information please go here
Please feel free to contact us at kara@icebergevents.com.au with any questions.
SFT-18 Venue
Darwin Convention Centre, Australia.
10 Stokes Hill Rd
Darwin City
NT 0800 Australia
22-24 October 2018
The ATHS is calling for 100 word summary of what our "members" do in telehealth so we can share it in the This Week In Telehealth newsletter. What type of research, projects, business or services do you run or coordinate?. Please email your 100 words and include an image of either your logo or of yourself to secretary@aths.org.au
