Health minister, Tanya Plibersek, and communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, said the $20.6m program would deliver services to patients in NBN rollout areas and provide feedback on how it and other health care measures could be delivered nationwide.
Plibersek said: “The NBN Telehealth Pilot Program will provide to eligible participants in NBN early rollout areas a range of innovative services delivered through pilots funded under the program. These will include having health indicators monitored remotely – for instance, your doctor being able to take your blood pressure online while you are at home – or receiving medical consultations and healthy living support in the home.”
Conroy said he expected services would start from 1 July. The Government has released draft guidelines at www.health.gov.au. Final guidelines will be released when applications open in February or March.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Stuart Corner
Quelle/Source: iTWire, 22.01.2012
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