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
On 4 March Jinhee Kim, a South Korean public health researcher currently in Australia, wrote in Croakey about her nation’s preparedness for a pandemic. Her article displayed just how far ahe... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Today, we start an occasional series examining artificial intelligence and algorithms, and their relationship to inequity. We do this in the knowledge that much of w... Read more
Note: QIMR have contacted Croakey to correct information in this morning’s story on the use of personal information by DHS. The post has been updated to include this information. Da... Read more
