Telehealth a game changer: closing the gap in remote Aboriginal communities

Telehealth a game changer: closing the gap in remote Aboriginal communities

Medical Journal of Australia

• Author(s): St Clair, Marianne, Murtagh, David P, Kelly, John , Cook, Jeff
• Published: 2019
• Volume: 210

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Abstract: Uptake of telehealth in the Northern Territory has been limited, for a variety of reasons including inadequate access to broadband internet.1 Through collaboration between multiple organisations — Northern Institute, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT, Laynhapuy Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (LHS), eMerge (a local information and communications technology company), Telstra Health, and Broadband for the Bush Alliance — funding was obtained from the Regional Economic Infrastructure Fund (NT Government, $407 540) to provide access to reliable broadband for three very remote Aboriginal communities.

• Urls: https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2019/210/6/telehealth-game-changer-closing-gap-remote-aboriginal-communities
• Keywords: information science, general medicine