Looks like we had better get up and rolling here in Oz well before 2019, refer 4th last para.
Australian health tech projections on last para.
Doesn't exclude the possibility that xTV may be able to provide a complementary product to TELSTRA before then to better enable their service delivery. Telstra still get the benefit of bandwidth use but using a better tech (xTV) than competitors for delivery, IMO.
Video posted on xTV video inbox where Joe is speaking to a surgeon is exactly the same as what they are doing here, just a matter of how good/efficient the technology/streaming is and what other benefits are offered.
If there are positives about the xTV tech that major hospitals are now starting to use in the US then the xTV team need to start making overtures with content providers here / now to show their benefit.
If it is a case of the internet speed in remote communities needing to be faster for xTVs product then the incumbents can continue to use what they currently are and when the new satellites come into play for the bush, eg Activ8 and others have another satellite coming online in the near future, then they can liaise with xTV as to when they switch across to their tech.
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Telstra technology may save community nurses millions of kilometres on the road
By Ben Potter
February 20, 2016, 12:15am
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Using Telstra's MyCareManager a nurse can video call a patient on a wireless tablet at their home. Jerry Galea
Nurses employed by Victoria's Royal District Nursing Service drive 10 million kilometres a year, often just to watch an elderly patient take their medicine.
Now using MyCareManager a nurse can video call a patient on a wireless tablet at their home, watch the patient take their medicine or test their blood pressure or glucose. Results upload automatically.
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The MyCareManager system uses off-the-shelf equipment, such as Samsung tablets, to minimise cost. Jerry Galea
If a patient's test results breach safe limits, an alarm goes off at the local Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) station, and the nurse can call the patient, who just hits a green button to take the call.
The results are on the patient's tablet, so she can have a say in care planning. Family members can also be looped in.
"It's convenient; it allows it to be done in the home; it's a huge productivity gain," says Michael Boyce, head of hospital and community services at Telstra Health, which built MyCareManager for the RDNS.
MyCareManager uses only off-the-shelf gear – such as Samsung tablets – to keep the cost down.
The product is used by a couple of hundred RDNS patients, and a couple of hundred more across community care groups in Queensland, NSW, Western Australia and South Australia.
But MyCareManager is one of the products Telstra is counting on to build a $1 billion business in health tech by 2019.
"All of these organisations want this service for thousands of their clients," says Boyce. "What we are doing now is developing it out to scale."
Telstra is also in talks about it with Peninsula Health, a large public hospital group on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
The Australian health tech market is expected to grow at 12.3 per cent per annum to $2.2 billion by 2020.
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