Telehealth solutions from real world learnings

Delivering and bringing scale to telehealth and telemedicine along with practitioner and user experiences of implementations rather than pilots are among the key themes of this year’s Australian Telehealth Conference (ATC) program, which has just been launched.

Confirmed speakers at ATC 2016 include Associate Professor Francesco Paolucci from Murdoch University who will advise delegates on how to remove barriers and bring scale to telehealth services.

Andrew Slater from Homecare Medical in New Zealand will talk about healthcare professionals and organisations already delivering change while Dr Andrew Lin, the founder and CEO of home health technology developers CliniCloud, is presenting on home medical devices moving telemedicine into the mainstream.

On the subject of practitioner experiences, Professor Mohamed Khadra, who is head of Surgery at Sydney Medical School, will present on the Nepean Telehealth Centre, while WAHealth telehealth coordinator Josh Sacks will speak about telehealth at the Fiona Stanley Hospital.

Elsewhere, Professor Yogi Kanagasingam from The Australian E-Health Research Centre at CSIRO will provide an update from China and HotDoc CEO Dr Ben Hurst will discuss the perks and pitfalls of healthcare disruption.

Other topics on the program include:

• Medical, nursing and health at home
• Allied health and community: Leading the change
• Consumer technology and wellness management

ATC 2016 takes place 28-29 April in Sydney.

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