TY - GEN
T1 - Healthcare in continuum for an ageing population - national self monitoring or remote offshore monitoring for Australia?
AU - Grain, Heather
AU - Robinson, Kenn
AU - Torney, Belinda
AU - Fraunholz, Bardo
AU - Unnithan, Chandana
PY - 2008/12/17
Y1 - 2008/12/17
N2 - Australia is a country, similar to other developed nations, confronting an ageing population with complex demographics. Ensuring continued healthcare for the ageing, while providing sufficient support for the already aged population requiring assistance, is at the forefront of the national agenda. Varied initiatives are with foci to leverage the advantages of ICTs leading to e-Health provisioning and assisted technologies. While these initiatives increasingly put budgetary constraints on local and federal governments, there is also a case for offshore resourcing of non-critical health services, to support, streamline and enhance the continuum of care, as the nation faces acute shortages of medical practitioners and nurses. However, privacy and confidentiality concerns in this context are a significant issue in Australia. In this paper, we take the position that if the National and state electronic health records system initiatives, are fully implemented, offshore resourcing can be a feasible complementary option resulting in a win-win situation of cutting costs and enabling the continuum of healthcare.
AB - Australia is a country, similar to other developed nations, confronting an ageing population with complex demographics. Ensuring continued healthcare for the ageing, while providing sufficient support for the already aged population requiring assistance, is at the forefront of the national agenda. Varied initiatives are with foci to leverage the advantages of ICTs leading to e-Health provisioning and assisted technologies. While these initiatives increasingly put budgetary constraints on local and federal governments, there is also a case for offshore resourcing of non-critical health services, to support, streamline and enhance the continuum of care, as the nation faces acute shortages of medical practitioners and nurses. However, privacy and confidentiality concerns in this context are a significant issue in Australia. In this paper, we take the position that if the National and state electronic health records system initiatives, are fully implemented, offshore resourcing can be a feasible complementary option resulting in a win-win situation of cutting costs and enabling the continuum of healthcare.
KW - Ageing in australia
KW - Electronic health records
KW - Offshore resourcing
KW - Privacy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57549091912&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57549091912
SN - 9789898111166
T3 - HEALTHINF 2008 - 1st International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
SP - 266
EP - 273
BT - HEALTHINF 2008 - 1st International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Health Informatics, HEALTHINF 2008
Y2 - 28 January 2008 through 31 January 2008
ER -