YOU SUPPORT LIFE SAVING REGIONAL AND REMOTE HEALTH SERVICES
Telehealth One of the stars among RBWH services during the COVID-19 lockdown was Telehealth. Telehealth uses secure video conferencing technology to connect healthcare professionals with patients closer to their own homes. For patients quarantined in their own homes, or living in rural and remote areas, Telehealth ensures their RBWH health support network is just a click or a call away. It can also be used to link families with long-stay patients who are in a hospital away from their hometown.
Through the strategic use of new technologies and the latest portable medical equipment, RBWH has been able to extend its reach far beyond our Herston campus. Not only do clinicians treat thousands of Queenslanders each year, but also patients from Northern New South Wales, the Northern Territory and surrounding Pacific Region. The hospital offers all major health specialities and is renowned for its pre-eminent cancer care, maternity, trauma and burns care. RBWH Foundation donors have long assisted RBWH expand its radius of care and in 2019-2020, again committed considerable investment in projects to support that focus.
RBWH has access to one of the largest managed Telehealth networks in Australia. The benef its can be wide-ranging and signif icant and include: • Reduced cost associated with travel to appointments • Less time required off work or other usual activities • Reduced time away from home for travel to appointments • Increased access to care • Improved health worker education and guidance in remote and regional areas.
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