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NZ Telehealth Resource Centre

Welcome to the NZ Telehealth Forum and Resource Centre. This site has guidance and resources for people who want to set up, improve or use a telehealth service within New Zealand.  Read more »

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About

The New Zealand Telehealth Forum promotes the use of telehealth in the provision of healthcare. It is funded by the Ministry of Health - Technology and Digital Services, and is led by a leadership group that includes clinicians, consumers, policymakers, planning and funding managers, ICT experts and industry representatives. Read more »

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Video Consultation

In New Zealand the most common types of telemedicine are video consultations and ‘store and forward’. Read more »

Store and Forward

Store-and-forward telemedicine is collecting clinical information and sending it electronically to another site for evaluation. Information typically includes demographic data, medical history, documents such as laboratory reports, and image, video and/or sound files. Read more »

mHealth

Mobile Health or mHealth uses mobile communication technologies, including the delivery of health information, health services and healthy lifestyle support programmes. Mobile communication devices include mobile phones (usually smartphones), tablet computers, mobile sensors and other devices that use cellular networks (3G or 4G), Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Functionality includes text messaging (SMS), smartphone/tablet apps, mobile web browsing, video calling, MMS/pxt, and allowing the mobile use of technologies such as QR code scanning and GPS locating. Read more »

TeleMonitoring

Telemonitoring is remotely collecting and sending patient data to be interpreted and used in a person’s ongoing health care. It means the patient can stay in their home and still have contact with the team providing their care. The data collected is usually related to physiology, like blood pressure, but it can also be self-reported symptoms, or activity levels. Alarm systems, fall detection, adherence to treatment, and environmental monitoring are also forms of telemonitoring. Collecting and sending the data in real time is referred to as telemetry. Read more »

Health Apps

There is a rapidly growing number of health apps available – for use by clinicians and consumers. A health app formulary is to be established as one of the actions from the new Health Strategy. The formulary will have a list of health apps that consumers and providers can use with confidence. Read more »

Implementation

Introducing a telehealth programme can be costly, and you want to get it right the first time. Read more »

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