Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2007
telehealth and advanced Networks
Laurie
Wilson,
Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO
ICT Centre
Health systems in the early twenty-first century are struggling
to provide quality health care to all consumers. The CeNTIE (Centre
for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy) project was
conceived to demonstrate new applications made possible by the high
bandwidths and quality of service of advanced networks. Several
projects addressing these health issues have been developed by
CeNTIE:
- The Virtual Critical Care Unit, now in routine use and
commercialised
- The ECHONET project, sharing expertise in ICU and
echocardiography, now being deployed in Tasmania
- The Remote Immersive Diagnostic Examination System (RIDES),
allowing paediatric specialists to do a “hands-on” examination
in small, remote clinics.
Advanced networks speed up existing telemedicine applications;
they permit the delivery of more complex medical services and will
contribute to a genuine decentralisation of health services. Human
factors involvement at each stage, especially user-centred design,
high usability, thorough evaluation and attention to workflow and
organisational/workflow issues raised by their implementation, are
essential.
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