school
Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Chan, Nai Chi
- Title
- Remote access to health services via information technology in Australia
- Journal Name
- 澳門醫學雜誌
- Pub. Info
- 2007年9月, Vol.7, No.3, pp. 186-190
- Link
- https://www.ssm.gov.mo/docs//2210/2210_5a8a30467cb7467f9d28d719e18bae54_000.pdf
- Keyword
- Telemedicine services；Australia
- Abstract
- Abstract : It is the current Australian clinical practice that the clinicians in various areas of Australia use their individual clinical practice method and cooperate with each other and are further integrated according to the horizontal integration within their same level and to the vertical integration between the three levels of services which are primary health care, secondary health care, and tertiary health care in order to solve the patients' problems more efficiently and effectively with better quality. However, Australia is a wide brown land with a green fringe. The majority of the population lives in large cities along the coastline of the country. Smaller towns and farming settlements are scattered across the middle of the country in isolated rural and outback areas and often separated by hundreds of kilometers of desert. In many country areas, where the population is spread much less densely than in cities, the general practitioner may be the only doctor in town. Such towns are often many hours away from the nearest hospital with specialist medical services. As a result, the cost-effective telemedicine services need to become an integral part of the Australian mainstream healthcare delivery and become integrated into the routine clinical care in Australia. Paragraph Headings: 1. The current clinical practice in areas of Australia 2. The geographical characteristics of Australia 3. The currently available information technologies 4. Discussion 4.1. The discussion especially focused on the current Australian individual clinical practice method 4.2. The discussion especially focused on the current Australian clinical practice system which consists of three levels of health services 5. Conclusion