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HINZ/NZTF symposium
The Telehealth Symposium today has been put together by HINZ and the newly formed New Zealand Telehealth Forum. It's a great time to participate in making telehealth part of everyday healthcare delivery. We've got an excellent line-up of speakers and of course the 165 people attending will have an opportunity to contribute in the workshop and at other opportunities.
Malcolm Pollock is opening the Symposium, saying 'We need to change the way things are.' There are so many compelling reasons to change. He says 'Telehealth is not the answer' but he goes on to say that it's an enabler, something that supports what we need to do to change the way things are.' Telehealth is a change agent. So what changes are needed and what are we going to do about it?
To participate in the change, you're invited to participate in the workshop later in the day.
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Comment by Karen Day on February 22, 2012 at 11:24 -
Now approaching the end of the second presentation in which Prof Stanton Newman has discussed some of the incentives, evidence and barriers to telehealth. Now recommending how to scale up - be clear about what you want, target the most responsive participants first, be inclusive.
Prof Richard Wootton talked about adoption theories and how we can improve and upscale our adoption of telehealth.
These two presenters video'd in from the UK and Norway respectively. Recordings of the talks will be available on the HINZ website and NZ Telehealth Forum websites after the symposium.
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Comment by Karen Day on February 22, 2012 at 15:00
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So far it's been a really interesting day. Lots of different views on what telehealth is, and how it can be adopted and services extended. Graeme Osborne presented the National Health IT Plan (yes, his presentations are not complete without that diagram!) and the need for investment in telehealth in New Zealand. He went on to tell us how the Ministry of Health is investing in creating a telehealth community and supporting the implementation of telehealth as part of how we deliver care in NZ.
Prof Matthew Parsons shared with us some early results from ASSET, a telemonitoring research project looking at how telemonitoring changes the way we think about healthcare. Interesting to think about how much longer people stay at home rather than counting numbers of hospital admissions.
Dr Walaa Saweirs reported on a renal dialysis initiative in Northland, that supported the development of a clinical network of care providers and team work where clinicians are geographically separated.
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Comment by Mark Barrios on February 22, 2012 at 15:33
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Thanks for posting updates, Karen! Cheers! Would be good to know more about telehealth and its functions.
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