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Module description

In this module we explore how telehealth is revolutionising healthcare systems in Australia, and around the world. Telehealth is a disruptive process, which has a broader and more far-reaching potential than first realised. This potential expands almost daily as new technologies emerge, and research confirms the merits of this innovative way of providing care. The telehealth paradigm has expanded from its early focus on remote care, to a much broader view, that telehealth should be used as a contemporary mode of service delivery within mainstream practice, for both remote and urban populations. While the uptake of telehealth has historically been slow, the COVID-19 pandemic has kick-started the adoption of telehealth services in a major way. Many of these recent changes related to the use of telehealth are likely to remain going forward. The meteoric development of new technologies, reduced costs of telehealth equipment, and ubiquitous access to electronic health records and administration systems, will all work in favour of new sustainable models of care, incorporating telehealth. Such models will bolster a health system facing escalating demands, and rising service costs. 

The urgent need for developing tomorrow's digitally enabled health workforce, has driven the development of this course, which will provide clinicians with core competencies in clinical telehealth. This module has been developed by several world-leading researchers and experts in telehealth from The University of Queensland, in Brisbane Australia. It consists of five different sections. Section 1 is the Fundamentals of Telehealth. Section 2 is Telehealth Technology. For section 3, we move onto Service Development and Implementation. Section 4 is how to evaluate telehealth services, and we also have a section which will consider telehealth from the perspective of specific healthcare disciplines.

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