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TELEHEALTH - A Call to Arms - 22 February 2012, Auckland

TELEHEALTH - A Call to Arms

22 February 2012, Auckland

Following our conference theme last year of ‘Working together, Working Smarter’ - the HINZ 2012 Seminar Series comprises three seminars that each partner with a different health-focused organisation. Initially, HINZ will partner with the newly established NZ Telehealth Forum (NZTF) to present ‘Telehealth - A Call to Arms’ - a symposium that brings international and national views on how we can target better health outcomes through the use of telehealth.

This one day symposium offers an opportunity for clinicians, service planners and providers, industry suppliers, ICT experts and others to come together for a common purpose, and to assist in informing the work programme for the NZ Telehealth Forum.

The impressive lineup of presenters includes:

Professor Richard Wootton, Editor of Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare; Director of Research, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine and Integrated Care
Professor Stanton Newton, Dean of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Health Psychology, City University London and Principal Investigator for the Whole System Demonstrator Programme
Graeme Osborne, Director Health IT Board
Professor Matthew Parsons, Chair in Gerontology Nursing, Waikato DHB
Dr. Walaa Saweirs, Consultant Nephrologist, Northland DHB
Associate Professor Dr. Michael Sullivan, Paediatric Oncologist and Clinical Leader Telehealth for Canterbury and West Coast DHBs
Dr Anthony Smith, Deputy Director and Associate Professor at the Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Australia and Executive Committee Member for the Australasian Telehealth Society.

FULL PROGRAMME

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Comment by Amgad Farah on March 7, 2012 at 16:02: We were thinking about using telehealth in Sudan in the villages around Khartoum. Theres isn't much technology outside the capital but people definitely have mobile phones. We were thinking about starting it at one village by sending health messages and also for consultation purposes. Usually at the village hospital there aren't any consultants and some do some for visits but not often. So a consultant could guide the doctor available on call in the village hospital on what do for the patient temporarily with the available resources until he or she is transferred.