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Australia working towards 'permanent' telehealth

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million) for the Workforce Incentive Programme which will provide additional funding to general practices by adding telehealth items in the calculation of Standard Whole Patient Equivalent. million ($220 million) investment in the country's primary care system. The telehealth investment includes A$31.8 million ($22.8

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March 2019 Telemedicine News

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff leading on the implementation of digital health, who are not working in front-line service delivery, have been given dedicated support and had their teams expanded to deploy digital health and care services in response to COVID-19 in areas including: primary care, care at home and public health.

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Rethinking approaches to remote health and telehealth in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” Nespolon agreed, adding that general practice needs to be freed from its current regulatory and financial constraints and that’s something that needs to be worked towards. ” Securing the nuts and bolts in healthcare. Our challenge, as an industry, is to take the next leap in delivering true remote care.”

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Whilst the system used by NHS General Practice is fairly well embedded, there is nothing similar for private practices or for any hospitals or dental services. The other aspect of medication that COVID-19 soon outed was prescribing. What became quite apparent is the lack of digital prescribing in large parts of the NHS.