Sen Conroy’s significant statement on telehealth
NBN in new $20.6M telehealth initiative
Briitish report says learn from USA’s Veterans Administration
NSW telehealth trial halves hospital admissions
Lack of interoperability limiting Australian telehealth uptake
ACRRM launches Australian Telehealth providors’ directory
Boston Childrens Hospital sends kids home with their own robot
US FCC Chairman calls for widespread broadband for healthcare
NEHTA opens doors to Model Health Community
British PM announces major telehealth rollout
NBN to provide in-home healthcare
Asia-Pacific m-Health market to reach $7Billion by 2017
Telstra launches bundled telehealth for rural & regional patients
Queensland nursing homes switch on to telehealth
Australian Dept of Health & Ageing announces Telehealth Support Grants
NBN’s benefits “not being sold properly”
Victorian Government invests in telehealth
Telehealth burns initiator named as WA’s Nurse of the Year
Australian local government urged to share NBN telehealth learnings
Early stats from telehealth Medicare item revealed
NBN announces 12-month rollout plan
Victorian doctors sign on for videoconferencing
Queensland Health announced as major telehealth conference sponsor
Queensland Health has been announced a Principal Sponsor of Successes and Failures in Telehealth, the second annual meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society. ATHS and the University of Queensland welcome this support from a very significant player in the hisory of Telehealth in Australia.
Australian researchers developing remote testing of ear implants
Pakistan sets up telemedicine network to alleviate flood aftermath
New coalition for telehealth to underserved populations
Telehealth simulation lab launches at University of Western Sydney
Tunstall to acquire major US healthcare corporation
World telehealth market to reach $6.28 billion by 2020
NSW commits to new telehealth centre at Nepean Hospital
Australian Government releases telehealth standards & guidelines papers
Roxon unveils eHealth (including telehealth) plan
Call for hard figures on NBN health benefits
Australian Government appoints e-mental health advisory group
Queensland telepaediatrics project wins innovation award
Flying Doctors warn NBN coverage not good enough
Telehealth for men launched in rural South Australia
Libs etch telehealth as NBN battleground
Australian Parliamentary Committee releases NBN report
The Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications has released the report on its Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network. The submission of the Australasian Telehealth Society is extensively quoted throughout the report. Our submission is also quoted in the dissenting report. The full report can be downloaded from the Inquiry website.
ACRRM launches Telehealth Advisory Committee
The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has set up a National TeleHealth Advisory Committee (ATHAC) with funding from the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Most of the major medical colleges are represented on the Committee, with ATHS being represented by its Honorary Secretary (Laurie Wilson). ATHS Vice President Anthony Maeder also attends in his role as Chair of Standards Australia Telehealth Subcommittee IT014-12. ATHAC’s objective is to devise a framework for Telehealth Standards. More information will be available from the ACRRM web site .
UK Dept of Health to run world’s largest randomised clinical trial
BT to link up “digital” Fiona Stanley Hospital
Accenture-led consortium reported to have won PCEHR contract
Australian study finds benefits of telehealth & telecare in aged care
eHealth gets $75M boost from Nicola Roxon
ATHS President wins prestigious iAward
A research project helping to save the eyesight of people in the rural and remote areas of Australia has won the top prize at the 2011 national iAwards, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry’s peak awards event held in Melbourne last week. The project, called Remote-i, took out the Victorian Government Inspiration Award.
As part of this work, we have developed a low cost, high quality eye screening system that gets around the problem of specialists travelling to the bush or patients trekking to the city.
This ophthalmology technology team led by Dr. Yogi Kanagasingam is part of CSIRO’s Health Services activity. Remote-i is already helping people in WA’s Pilbara region and is a prime example of the technologies that are possible once Australia has a broadband network. More information athttp://iawardscontent.elk.com.au/cms/000112.pdf .
RACGP releases telehealth videoconferencing guidelines
Australian health IT spending tipped to reach $2.1billion
ATHS featured in ABC radio’s “Australia Talks”
iRobot, InTouch Health join forces
RACGP consults with major vendors on telehealth standards
Australian Medical Board releases tech consult guidelines
AARNet to roll out Telepresence Exchange
Western Australia commits $36.5M to telehealth
Allied health workers demand Medicare telehealth rebate
NASA project to benefit tele-ultrasound
Virtual rehab clinic to help patients in rural Australia
Telehealth handout could become new “pink batts” scandal
Rural Australia welcomes telehealth initiative
IBM releases report on future connected health services
Gillard, Roxon to test-drive telehealth system
Northern NSW to trial home telehealth
Medibank announces deal with US telehealth providor
How the NBN will change Australian healthcare
LA Childrens Hospital pioneers robotic NICU telemedicine
CSC report highlights telemedicine as “essential technology for reformed healthcare”
WHO releases report on mHealth
New Zealand Telehealth Forum formed
Australian specialists paid to embrace telehealth
RACGP committed to supporting telehealth in General Practice
Queensland eHealth highlighted at CeBIT
NZ telehealth trial improves quality of life
Success in Australian telehealth trial
Local GP group bags telehealth funding
Australian telehealth funding model criticised
$216.3M extra federal funding for Australian telehealth
Cell phones saving lives in Tanzania
Work needed for Microsoft-Skype deal to fulfil healthcare potential
$120.5M in Australian Federal budget for telehealth
Australian Government urged to expand Medicare rebates for telehealth
Global telemedicine market to grow to $23billion by 2015
Northern Territory allocates $6.6M to telehealth
Australian home telehealth market to more than triple by 2017
Australian telehealth highlighted at ATA International Forum
Business Wire highlights New Zealand telecare technologies
Australia to roll out new 24-hour medical hotline
SmartPersonalHealth report highlights interoperability
ATA announces 2011 Award recipients
New study identifies top m-health business models
Telehealth should target “grey nomads”
Cisco survey finds telehealth has greatest potential to improve healthcare
Wall Street Journal highlights mobile healthcare
Study finds telehealth lowers ICU mortality and length of stay
Australian Government announces nine new PCEHR sites
iSoft trading halt extended – talk of company sale
Doubts expressed over latency in NBN’s wirelss links
Michael Dell, Nicola Roxon talk e-health
Health information technology ‘control tower’ could improve earthquake response
Conversation with virtual partner may benefit adults with autism
Body-to-body communications – a new paradigm for mobile healthcare?
HP moves into telehealth with new products
Oakeshott to chair new Parliamentary Inquiry into the NBN
A new Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the NBN has been announced, with independent MP Rob Oakeshott as its chair. This will be a joint committee of both houses of Parliament with more sweeping powers than the previously announced inquiry by the House Infrastructure committee. More details about the new inquiry can be found here, while the home page of the former inquiry (to which the ATHS made a submission) is to be found here.
Philippines to fast-track national telehealth project
NSW ambos trialling electronic health record
FDA clears first Radiology application for mobile devices
Telemed cart saves $540,000 in 7 months in Arizona, USA
Telehealth Technology Centre proposed for Nepean Hospital, Sydney
Peak health body calls for NBN rollout
WHO releases eHealth, telemedicine report on its member countries
Lessons and opportunities for telecoms in Queensland floods
Victoria extends rural telehealth trial
NZ rethink on broad band telehealth
China launches world’s largest remote monitoring project
Telehealth featured in new CSIRO/NICTA Broadband Innovation Centre
$55M funding spurs progress on personal health records
Conroy announces $4M for NSW Telehealth trial
Roxon announces iPhone App for telehealth
Bill Gates highlights role of mobile phones in saving children’s lives
Australasian Telehealth Society represented at eHealth Summit
The Australian Department of Health and Ageing has announced an “eHealth Conference” later this month to discuss the rollout of the Governments eHealth policy. The Australasian Telehealth Society will be represented by its President, Yogi Kanagasingam. The full program can be found here.
Global Telehealth 2010 a great success
Australian Government announces extra $400 million for telehealth
Social networking can improve healthcare and lower costs
ATHS President elected to International Society Board
The Australasian Telehealth Society is pleased to announce that its President (Prof Yogesan “Yogi” Kanagasingam) has been elected to the board of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH). Thiis appointment will be confirmed and will commence at the 15th International ISfTeH Meeting (Global Telehealth 2010) to be held in Perth, Western Australia from10 to 12 November 2010.
Report predicts shakeup in telehealth market
NEHTA publishes health identifier plan
Blackberry-based telehealth system launched in UK
Android app for heart monitoring demonstrated
Further analysis shows eICUs are cost-effective
GT2010 Conference program announced
Google Health redesign announced
$83 million paid to Australian doctors for non-existent messaging service
McGill University (Canada) pioneers remote anaesthesia
International Virtual eHospital announces Albanian initiative
A pill that sends text messages