Almost one-third of GP visits in NSW during 2020 were via telehealth, new research shows, and doctors say their patients won’t go back to in-person only consultations. In the article below,... Read more
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a set of national standards to provide consumers, carers, referrers and providers with benchmarks for what consti... Read more
Baby boomers heading into aged care in Australia may be shocked to find themselves living in the past when it comes to digital access, according to Dr Tim Smyth, a health management consulta... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The long-awaited access to telehealth consultations in the coronavirus pandemic has been broadly embraced by patients and health care providers, though it is not wit... Read more
Daniel Strachan, Katherine Gilbert and Clare Strachan write: The Ebola pandemic in West Africa demonstrated the challenge of capturing insights from health workers during a health crisis. Th... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Telehealth was a recurring theme when I recently asked a range of people, when researching this article for The Guardian, What opportunities for positive change in h... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: The Australian Government’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly today announced that all states and territories have signed up to allow use of the COVIDSaf... Read more
How can we care for the mental health and wellbeing of older people at this time? Researcher Dr Joyce Siette has some practical suggestions, including virtual visits to zoos. Joyce Siette wr... Read more
In the latest edition of the COVID-19 wrap, public health researcher Alison Barrett reports on some timely new research and analysis of digital contact tracing, and also addresses a critical... Read more
The Australian Government is moving towards funding telehealth more widely, and some governments have started using SMS to keep people informed. But the moves are slow, way slower than in ma... Read more
