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The Future of Technology in Community and Aged Care
Michael Boyce
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Community & Aged Care SectorKey Trends & Issues
Links between Health & Aged Care Systems
AGEINGPopulation
Consumer Empowerment
Home Care packages projected to increase from 60k in 2017 to over
Over 85s growing from 420k to 1.2M by 2020
by 2022
100k
Consumer directed care in aged & disabilities sectors
Competition means more focus on cost and quality
Elderly patients re-admitted to hospital within a month!20%
Average aged care resident
has 9 Medications
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Aged Care a linked continuum
Source: Aged Care Capability Report. Austrade. August 2013.
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Ontario Telemedicine Network results from home health monitoring, combined with remote care coordination
Better Care in the HomeEnabling People to Stay at Home for Longer
60% Reduction in hospitalisations
70% reduction in Emergency Department visits
A study of 813 people with Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that for every $1 invested in telemedicine, $5 in hospital costs were avoided ”
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Improving Community Care efficiency through better systems
Efficient Rostering of Staff
Route Optimisation
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Better links between health and aged care:Improved Medication Management
Aged care facility
GP
Pharmacy
Single medicationchart
GP updates e-medication chart
Facility administersbased on e-medication chart
Pharmacy dispensesfrom e-medication
chart
From handwritten medication charts….
…. To a single shared medication record
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Better links between Health and Aged Care:Telehealth in Residential Aged Care
US telehealth company Teladoc does 11,600 telehealth medical consultations per month
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Aged care residents see GPs an average of 14 times a year; this is both inconvenient for the GP and disruptive for the patient
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