Telehealth
Alternative labels
e-health
e-mental health
Mobile health
Telemedicine
Journal article
Digital interventions to save lives from the opioid crisis prior and during the SARS COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review of Australian and Canadian experiences
The potential for digital initiatives for opioid harm reduction is boundless. Synthesized evidence on current interventions and their efficacy are emerging. This scoping review is an effort to aggregate Canadian and Australian digital health initiatives used to prevent opioid-related deaths and minimize harm, prior to and particularly during the pandemic of SARs-COVID-19, when the crisis...
Report
How do place-based services evolve in a world of virtual, physical and hybrid service delivery?
Given the inevitable growth of virtual and hybrid services in the context of place-based service delivery, this report argues that future government initiatives should consider how virtual services can be included in the design and how they are integrated and interact with face-to-face components.
Evaluation
Independent evaluation of supported digital mental health services – Phase 2 final report
The Centre for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne conducted an independent evaluation of three government‑funded supported digital mental health services to inform future Australian Government funding, awareness and utilisation efforts. Using a mixed‑methods approach guided by five key evaluation questions, the evaluation offers recommendations to support future policy development and system improvement.
Briefing paper
Avoiding hospital readmissions: the models and the role of primary care
This paper discusses different models of care reported in the literature which have been used to prevent unplanned hospital readmissions, including those models that improve transitional care, as well as virtual wards and tele-health.
Strategy
Future focused primary health care: Australia’s primary health care 10 year plan 2022-2032
This plan was developed as a high-level response to the recommendations of the Primary Health Reform Steering Group, and an extensive series of consultations. The plan aims to support primary health care providers to embrace continuing advances in technology - in telehealth and virtual care, digital health and in other health care technologies.