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Telehealth in Residential Aged Care – for visiting clinicians

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This training module is for remote-end clinicians and other health professionals providing medical, health and wellbeing services to the aged care sector, practicing offsite. This includes not just GPs, but also medical specialists and allied health professionals like counsellors, dietitians and physiotherapists.

This module is provided by Healthy North Coast

Introduction

The benefits of telehealth
The importance of telehealth in residential aged care
Training overview

Infrastructure

Setting up a room for telehealth
Telehealth equipment options
Telehealth software options
Optimising Connectivity
Monitoring devices in telehealth

Logistics and Support

Instigating a telehealth consultation
Scheduling Telehealth Consultations
Supporting residents with telehealth
Supporting residents families and carers
Medico-legal considerations
Data security requirements
MBS and telehealth

Best Practice

Telehealth etiquette
Engaging families and carers
Remote engagement with interpreter services
Telehealth for vision and hearing impaired residents
Telehealth for persons living with dementia

Models of telehealth care

End of life care
Wound care
Case conferencing
Emergency care
Geriatric Consultation
Psychiatric Consultation
Allied health consultation

Troubleshooting

Hardware troubleshooting
Software troubleshooting
Scheduling challenges
 

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