Illustrates the practical application of technology in community-based patient care through an overview of a project that the RDNS has trialled to provide remote medicines management.

Broadband telecommunication services are growing rapidly and spreading at a remarkable pace. Globally, mobile phones are one of the most universally available technologies today that have most affected people’s lives, both in developed and developing countries. This mode of communication has spread at such an astonishing rate that it has leapfrogged certain stages of communication...

This paper provides a conceptual framework for the evaluation of telehealth implementations in Australia, and also provides an evidence base that illustrates the current state of telehealth evaluation on an international scale. Executive summary

This review of the literature was conducted to provide an overview of changing communications in health promotion to inform the Falls Prevention Project of Country Health SA’s Local Health Network. The context is that falls health literacy information is being increasingly made available via digital formats, including the Internet. This is in line with healthcare...

The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 requires the Australian Information Commissioner to formulate guidelines outlining how the Commissioner will approach enforcement issues relating to the eHealth record system. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is the independent regulator of privacy aspects of Australia’s personally controlled electronic health (eHealth) record system. The...