Community Care
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Wed 8th May 2013
Over $20 million has been earmarked for nine telehealth pilot projects to be delivered via the NBN, Senator Stephen Conroy announced today in a joint statement with the Minister for Ageing, Mark Butler.
Projects funded under the NBN-Enabled Telehealth Pilots Program will reach an estimated 2500 patients in 50 NBN-connected communities and will be delivered through partner organisations in the healthcare and research sectors.
Grants vary between $2.993 million, for virtual nursing services delivered by the Royal District Nursing Service to 200...
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Wed 17th April 2013
Around 1,100 people from all over Australia were at last week’s National Rural Health Conference in Adelaide, many of them consumer health advocates, says Penny Hanley, who is the communications manager at the National Rural Health Alliance.
It was an ideal audience for Deborah Smith’s presentation, showcasing the three-year ‘Our Health, Our Community’ project, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Smith is the Consumer Relationships Manager at the not-for-profit Consumers Health Forum of Australia CHF), the...
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Wed 17th April 2013
Today in Singapore, executives from the RDNS (Royal District Nursing Service) accepted the "Outstanding ICT Innovation" award in front of 300 international delegates to the 4th Ageing Asia Investment Forum.
The award recognised the RDNS telehealth project, which allows a community nurse to make a ‘virtual visit’ to a patient at home via a video hookup to supervise medication, check some vital signs such as blood pressure and do a visual health check.
Earlier today, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State, Mr Chan Chun Sing accepted an...
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Wed 10th April 2013
Telehealth leaders Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is planning a real-time video consultation between a volunteer in Singapore and a senior Australian nurse next Tuesday to demonstrate its ‘Happy Healthy Home’ project.
RDNS is a finalist in the ‘Outstanding ICT Innovation’ award category at the 1st Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards 2013for its broadband telehealth project.
Organisers hope that a senior Singaporean official will agree to a live video link with a senior nurse in Melbourne who will check the volunteer’s blood...
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Tue 2nd April 2013
Last week’s announcement that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Bill had passed with the support of all Federal MPs was a cause for national celebration - and nowhere more than at the St Giles Society, Tasmania’s largest paediatric health service.
St Giles Chief Executive Ian Wright is one of the six members of the Tasmanian Premier’s NDIS Taskforce which will lead the state’s implementation of the NDIS.
“During 2010 and 2011 St Giles identified and actively supported the implementation of two Federal Government policies:...
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Thu 11th April 2013
US - Online portals allow patients to interact with their health information and communicate with providers outside the traditional office visit. Such systems offer powerful benefits: encouraging patients to become more engaged in their own care and helping providers to improve efficiency, quality, and access.
However integrating a portal into a clinical practice is not easy. The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has worked with early adopters to capture key lessons learned, as well as tools and resources to help guide US safety-net...
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Thu 11th April 2013
US - Like Australia, USA policymakers are hungry for health care data to help inform their decisions. What types of data are they interested in, and how would they make it available? This report published by CHCF reports the findings from its 2011 Free the Data initiative and identifies 3 key areas to improve collection and access to US state health care data: providing resources to improve access; advocacy for legal changes; and communicating innovations in data collection and dissemination.
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Tue 26th March 2013
Gillard Government passes NDIS Bill through Parliament. Joint Media Release, 21 March 2013. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Bill has passed the Parliament - a major step towards providing peace of mind to people with disability, their families and carers, and to Australians who may acquire a significant and permanent disability in the future. More
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Tue 26th March 2013
US - Test Procedure: 2014 Edition Testing: Clinical Quality Measures. Office of National Coordinator for Health IT, 22 March 2013. The Office of the National Coordinator continues to post updates to the 2014 Edition ONC-Approved Test Method for the ONC HIT Certification Program. On Friday March 22, 2013, ONC released an updated version of the ONC-Approved Test Procedure for testing of clinical quality measures. Version 1.3 of this Test Procedure aligns with the recent update of the Cypress tool version 2.1 that was released on...
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Tue 26th March 2013
US - Report: Transforming Health Care through Big Data. Mike Millard, HealthcareITNews, 20 March 2013. With big data promising enormous clinical and financial rewards for healthcare, but posing just as many technical and strategic challenges, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) has published a study mapping the way forward for providers at the starting line. More
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