Working Groups and Communities of Practice

There are three working groups and two communities of practice. Each group consist of professionals with health sector backgrounds who voluntarily dedicate their time and skills to the NZ Telehealth Forum. Members have specialised knowledge, skills and sector experience. 

Each of the groups are committed and focussed on specific strategic projects and work collaboratively to provide constructive input, have an open exchange of ideas and views, achieve common goals and deliverables, and advise on project support. 

The groups connect regularly to discuss responsibilities, tasks, and activities, as well as support each other throughout the project development. 

The actions and outcomes of each group facilitates progress towards telehealth innovation and potential for national impact, which embraces and celebrates telehealth as an efficient, safe and effective means of delivering quality healthcare.

These are as follows:

Working Groups

  • Patient anywhere, clinician everywhere (PACE) and remote patient monitoring (RPM)
  • Research, audit and evaluation (RAE) with data standards (DS)
  • Digital health equity network (DHEN)

Communities of Practice

  • Telehealth community of practice
  • AI community of practice

As of August 2024, many of these working groups and COPs have been merged. These are as follows:

+ Telehealth Community of Practice – this merges Internationals COP, Professionals COP, Clinicians COP and Cancer Care
+ Patient Anywhere, Clinician Elsewhere (PACE) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
+ Research, Audit and Evaluation (RAE) and Data Standards (DS) 
+ Digital Health Equity Network (DHEN)
+ AI COP