Australia’s most forward thinking, collaborative telehealth event will showcase the future beyond traditional health for industry leaders, digital entrepreneurs, technologists and researchers. We will build on Australia’s experience to date in telehealth, call centres, online services and digital applications, to demonstrate world-leading virtual technologies providing the opportunity for new services and models of care.
ATC 2016 will elevate the discussion in the application of telehealth capabilities to truly deliver sustainable change in healthcare.
Our experience from the NBN satellite based ophthalmic care delivery to the very remote areas in WA and Queensland will be discussed. Over 1000 patients have gone through the Remote-I store-and-forward system. Most of them are diabetic patients and 6 of them had severe sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy.
ACT health experience with chronic disease patients in the Federal /CSIRO telemedicine trial. Prof Dugdale will comment on the need to consider each trial in its clinical and geographical context before generalisation can be drawn from a trial.
Join Leigh Donoghue as he interviews Dr Vini Khurana on specialist medical practice use and patient experiences in telehealth. Dr Khurana is a leading brain and spine surgeon and Director of C.N.S. Neurosurgery providing specialist neurological services.