Digital Health
Health-e Together Digital Care: accessible, connected & efficient healthcare for our community
What is Digital Health?
Digital health is a critical element of the future of healthcare.
Digital Health offers the potential to support greater engagement, accessibility, quality, safety, efficiency, and sustainability of health systems around the world. With a focus on engaging and empowering patients, activating caregiver networks and understanding that patients are increasingly behaving as consumers of healthcare. Digital health provides us with a toolbox of technologies and techniques that support the development of new, innovative patient and caregiver-centred models of care.
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Health-e Together Digital Care Toolbox.
This change management toolbox offers healthcare providers a range of resources, tools and techniques to support the implementation of digital change at different levels of digital health readiness.
The toolbox will assist healthcare organisations to recognise how digital health technologies are applied in practice to achieve greater efficiency in healthcare delivery and better health outcomes for consumers.
Digital Care Survey.
The brief survey is an effective tool for healthcare services to identify gaps in their practice digital health readiness and be part of the change approach for future digital health initiatives. Participating in this survey helps healthcare practices determine their digital health readiness level and supports the planning for innovative digital health activities in the region.
Registrations are currently closed for Digital Maturity Assessments for all providers. If you would like to express your interest in participating in a digital maturity assessment, please contact the digital health team.
Latest digital health news
June 24 2024
Preparing for the New Financial Year: Essential Digital Health Tips from the PHN for Healthcare Administration
As we approach the end of the financial year, it's an ideal time to reflect on the past year and plan for the future. For healthcare administrators and practice managers, this period is crucial for ensuring that operations are smooth, efficient, and ready for the challenges and opportunities of the new financial year.
June 12 2024
End-of-Financial-Year Admin Simplified with Provider Connect Australia™
As the end of the financial year approaches and paperwork starts to mount up, keeping your business details up-to-date doesn’t have to be a burden anymore. Provider Connect Australia™ (also known as PCA™) is a free initiative by the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) that allows you to update your business information and automatically send those updates to your connected business partners.
June 06 2024
EOI Now Open - Small Town Engagement Model (STEM)
Ready to make a real difference in your rural community? The PHN is excited to announce that Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open to empower your small rural community with innovative health care through PHN's Small Town Engagement Model (STEM) Initiative.
June 03 2024
Rural Mothers Receive Postnatal Support Via PHN’s Innovative Virtual Psychologist Pilot
The Virtual Psychologist Pilot, funded by the Primary Health Network (the PHN), is designed to provide crucial postnatal mental health support to mothers in the rural areas of Narrabri, Gunnedah, and Moree in New South Wales (NSW).
Digital Health Support in General Practice
The PHN’s Primary Care Improvement Team partner with general practices to build a better Australian primary health system.