Specialist cancer care through Telehealth models

Abstract

New models of telehealth are another avenue to help further decrease the disparity of access and survival outcomes between rural and urban patients. Implementation of these models requires health system wide approach for development key performance indicators and allocation of resources.

Patient and practitioner satisfaction with tele-dermatology including Australia’s indigenous population: A systematic review of the literature

“…For example, a paper reported on the use of tele-oncology among indigenous populations, which found that 87% of patients were satisfied with the service (Mooi et al, 2012). These findings were supported by a more recent publication by Sabesan (2015).…”

Using the Quadruple Aim Framework to Measure Impact of Heath Technology Implementation: A Case Study of eConsult

“…47 By allowing these individuals to potentially receive specialist advice through their PCPs, eConsult can reduce the burden of seeking care from a provider with whom they are unfamiliar, and who in some cases may practice in another city hundreds of kilometers away. 48 Our study has several limitations in addition to its inability to capture health outcomes as described above. Reports of patient and provider satisfaction may have been subject to selection bias, as individuals who support the service may be more inclined to use it and to respond to interviews and surveys.…”

Teleoncology for gynecologic cancers

“…Subsequent referral to a subspecialty center might also be infeasible due to distance or patient preference. Consequently, teleoncology has been integrated most solidly in countries like Canada [1] and Australia [2,3], where specialty medical care is concentrated in densely-populated, urban centers and the remainder of the population is spread over a large geographic area.…”