Telehealth within your practice

Date
09 Apr 2020
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM

Cost
Free

Available to
General Practice
Practice Nurses
Practice Managers
General Practitioners
Practice Staff

Continuing Professional Development

CPD Points unavailable

Webinar

Quality improvement

Wanting to initiate Telehealth within your practice but unsure where to start? Attend this 90 minute webinar and have your questions answered!

This webinar will lay out the foundations of tele-health, how this is implemented in practice, how to navigate risks and barriers and how to coordinate workflow.  We will then proceed with case studies from practices within our region that have successfully been utilising telehealth services. 

Facilitating this session will be Riwka Hagen BAppSc (Med Lab Sc), Dip Project Management, GAICD, Auditor/Lead Auditor – QAS
Riwka is currently the principal consultant for Medical Business Services which provides services to the health sector including mentoring & training; practice reviews; business systems analysis & work flow optimisation; chronic disease program improvements; Medicare item numbers training; practice incentives program and new practice start-ups. Since 2007 Riwka has been a surveyor for QIP/Agpal in respect of General Practice Accreditation.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate increased understanding around the principles of telehealth (both video-conference and telephone).
  • Describe the barriers, benefits and risks of telehealth
  • Initiate plans within your own practice to utilise telehealth