Managing Chronic Disease at Home with Telehealth

We're bringing together the best minds across CSIRO from health services, computer science, mathematics, statistics and social science, to work with our partners on Australia's first large scale telehealth study.

On The Frontier of Telehealth

Established in 2008 to support its military beneficiaries through the Department of Defense, the National Center for Telehealth & Technology, or T2 as it's commonly known, has developed a range of strategies and tools for tackling psychological issues with telehealth tools. Foreseeing the rise in opportunities for access to a health provider through increase in mobile device usage, and utilizing digital tools to allow health support oceans and continents apart, T2 is pushing forward new strategies for healthcare to benefit not only the military, but everyone else as well.

Example of telehealth Plans

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TeleThoracic Medicine

Telemedicine has emerged as a reliable and effective tool in enhancing overall health-care communication. Dr. Michael Humer and Dr. Bill Nelems are both well-respected thoracic surgeons located in Kelowna, B.C. and work in conjunction with Interior Health to provide services to patients throughout the Southern Interior of B.C. In this video they answer the question, "How do we deliver specialty care to a vast area where many of our patients live in rural communities?"

Telemedicine necessary for Singapore's aging population

http://www.zdnet.com/article/telemedicine-necessary-for-singapores-aging-population/

Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring technologies are necessary, even in a small country like Singapore, to support an aging population and allow patients with chronic diseases to better manage their health.

By 2030, some 30 percent of Singapore's citizens will be part of the aging population, according to Singapore HealthPartners CIO James Woo, who noted that elderly folks are less mobile and face difficulties making regular trips to the polyclinics to receive health care. Telemedicine or remote patient monitoring systems will enable these patients to have tele-consultation with healthcare specialists, eliminating the need to make a trip to the clinic unless necessary, he said.

In an interview with ZDNet Asia, Woo said Singapore's Ministry of Health is taking a serious look into promoting discipline among patients, as part of efforts to encourage them to monitor and maintain their own health. Doing so means they are less likely to end up in a public healthcare institution where bedcrunch is a big issue in the country, he noted.

"How we do this is by getting these patients to take their own blood pressure, sugar readings and heart rate through remote patient monitoring," he said.

The CIO also pointed to the benefits of an electronic medical record (EMR) system which he said would improve patient safety, and provide healthcare providers access to a patient's complete medical history to help in their diganosis and establish the right treatment.

The system will also ensure the same medical records can flow seamlessly between the various healthcare providers, including primary care, acute care and stepdown care, Woo explained.

While the public healthcare sector would unlikely face any barriers, he noted that the private sector could face challenges adopting the EMR system because clinics would need to move their data to a digital platform, which would cost them time and money.

Singapore's health ministry would need to provide incentives for the private sector to overcome this, he said, adding that eventually, the private sector would recognize that the benefits outweigh the cost of getting on the EMR bandwagon. 

About Singapore HealthPartners
Singapore HealthPartners is currently constructing a billion-dollar facility, Connexion at Farrer Park, which is touted to be one of the world's first truly integrated healthcare and hospitality facilities, encompassing a specialist medical center, private hospital and luxury hotel. 

When completed in 2013, the site will include over 230 hotel rooms, 189 medical consultation suites and 11 operating theaters.

Netherland five year plan for eHealth

In our interview with B.E. Bas Van den Dungen, Director General of Curative Care at the Dutch Ministry of Health, he talks us through the current eHealth strategy for The Netherlands, highlighting their three key objectives within the next five years. Van den Dungen highlights that their goals are all patient-centred, and that the current challenge they are facing is to truly “get eHealth in the heart and minds of the people”. eHealth Week 2016, co-organised by the Dutch Ministry of Health, the European Commission and HIMSS Europe, will address these challenges and many more on 8-10 June in Amsterdam – see you there!

European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2016

European Telemedicine Conference (ETC) 2016

eHealth European Union activities

Short overview of the European Union activities on eHealth including funded projects demos

E-Health and Telemedicine in Afghanistan

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) works to build a sustainable health system for Afghanistan at all levels from basic rural healthcare to tertiary level hospital services. Working with partners, e-health and telemedicine are innovative health interventions which can work in the country despite the ongoing security and access problems. Global Health TV visits the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul to see how AKDN is providing remote training for staff and remote services for patients.

Challenges in global healthcare delivery

Challenges in global healthcare delivery. Consider telemedicine?

How can healthcare be efficient and effective? What challenges does this raise in low and high income countries? 

Leading researchers in health services – Jeffrey Lazarus (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), James Buchan (Queen Margaret University, UK), Anne Sales (University of Michigan, USA) and Jeffrey Hoch (University of Toronto, Canada) – tackle these questions, dealing with the practicalities on the ground as well as health policy and economics. 

For more on challenges in healthcare delivery visit Biome here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/biome/ch...

Biome is BioMed Central's online magazine for research highlights, comment and community news across biology and medicine.

Mobile Telemedicine Vehicle for disasters

Mobile Telemedicine Vehicle for disasters.
Loma Linda University Medical Center now has the capability to provide care in remote locations. This self-contained, four-wheel-drive vehicle has sophisticated diagnostic equipment connecting to LLUMC via satellite for teleconferencing.

Mobile telemedicine example

An interview with Dr. Ranya Habash, CMO of Everbridge. Dr. Habash discusses her use of HipaaBridge to enable telemedicine at her practice. HipaaBridge is used to provide better patient care and increase clinical efficiency.

Telemedicine in a clinical setting

PBS Newshour present a more clinical use of telemedicine.

Video conferencing technology can now connect patients and physicians almost instantaneously, offering convenience, efficiency and savings. But what happens to the doctor-patient relationship if you're never in the same room? Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Telemedicine for the elderly from home.

Telemedicine for the elderly from home.
Learn how an efficient telemedicine program from Philips and Banner Health allows people to receive high-quality health care from the comfort of their own home.

What is telemedicine

Definig telemedicine
Telemedicine is simply medicine provided at a distance. Because there are so many names for the way technology is used in medicine - Telehealth, mHealth, ehealth, telehomecare, among others - GlobalMed prefers to use Connected Health as an umbrella term. This video explains the basics of real-time telemedicine.

Indian Portable Clinic: Union Health Ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organisation are planning to launch Portable Clinics across rural India under the National Rural Health Mission Program.

Dr Robert's E-Health aims to provide virtual wellness and affordable telemedicine to underserved people living in remote areas. 

Introducing the Portable Health Clinic.

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