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Waikato patients are being offered the chance to speak to hospital doctors from home on their smartphone with a new ‘Virtual DHB’ service.  Waikato District… Read more

Technological breakthroughs in fields such as robot-facilitated telesurgery, sensors embedded in band-aids that can send an infection alert to clinicians and haptic coupling technology driven… Read more

At its Annual General Meeting, held during Successes and failures in Telehealth in Brisbane last week, the Australasian Telehealth Society elected a new Executive, who… Read more

The Barwon South West Health Area, which covers a large part of south eastern Victoria, has announced a satellite meeting to HISA’s Australian Telehealth Conference. … Read more

Advocates for the National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre-to-the-premises (FttP) rollout have cited telehealth and remote patient care as one of the reasons for the need… Read more

Australian general practices, medical specialists and aged care facilities that are considering setting up telehealth services under the federal government’s Telehealth On-Board Incentive will need… Read more

The number of patients worldwide using telehealth services will rise from less than 350,000 in 2013 to roughly seven million in 2018, according to a… Read more

Western Australia is expanding its Emergency Telehealth Service (ETS) to the state’s Goldfields region as part of plans to have most WA Country Health Service… Read more

The Queensland-based research team that has developed protocols to support geriatric care using telehealth has established a new commercial business called RES-e-CARE, a teleheath service… Read more

This year, instead of sending their Christmas lists to the North Pole in the post, children at hospitals across the UK have been getting the… Read more