Program

*This is an indicative program and is subject to change.

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7:30 AM

Registration Open

Boulevard Level, BCEC

8:15 AM to 10:05 AM

Opening Session

Conference Opening

Welcome to Country, Songwoman Maroochy

Conference Overview and Housekeeping

Keynote Address: The Value and Future of Telemedicine
Dr Peter Yellowlees, University of California Davis and American Telemedicine Association, California, United States

Q&A Session with Dr Peter Yellowlees

Keynote Address: Change through Collaboration
Jane Clemensen, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Q&A Session with Jane Clemensen

10:05 AM to 10:30 AM

Industry Engagement Session

  • Inline Medical & Dental
  • Tunstall Health
  • Alcidion
  • CeGA
  • Coviu
  • Centre for Online Health
  • Australasian TeleHealth Society
10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Morning Tea and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 1 - Mental Health - Room B1

11:00am - 11:15am

eCYMHS: Innovation and expansion in paediatric telepsychiatry
Jennylee Wood, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
Improving early detection and service delivery in Child Psychiatry

Kirsi Bykachev, University of Eastern Finland, Pohjois-Savo, Finland

11:30am - 11:45am
Internet Psychotherapy with “net-step”: a Therapist delivered IPT for Depression an Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care Patients

Ulrich Sprick, St. Alexius/St. Josef Clinic, Neuss, Germany

11:45am - 12:00pm
Developing video conferencing for remote child psychiatric consultations in Pohjois-Savo, Finland

Kirsi Bykachev, University of Eastern Finland, Pohjois-Savo, Finland

12:00pm - 12:15pm
Establishing and evaluating an online mental health peer support group – lessons learnt during the first 12 months

Monica Taylor, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia & Julie Ling, Grow, Queensland, Australia

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

 

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 2 - Allied Health Services - Room B2

11:00am - 11:15am
Dental Health Services Victoria’s Tele-dentistry Pilot Program: Implementation and the way forward

Diane Collins, Nicole Heaphy & Hanlie Engelbrecht, Dental Health Services Victoria, Victoria, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
A MultiDisciplinary Renal Telehealth Service: Lessons Learnt

Karen Lucas, Metro South Health, Queensland, Australia

11:30am - 11:45am
Ipswich Hospital Telepharmacy Service – an innovation in inpatient clinical pharmacy activities

Katherine Nunn & Cal Winckel, Ipswich General Hospital, Queensland, Australia

11:45am - 12:00pm
Outreach Rehabilitation Services

Shane Delves, Murrumbidgee Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia

12:00pm - 12:15pm
Evaluation  of the initial 30 days of a telenursing system for patients with CHF, DM, and COPD.

Takuya Kanamori, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 3 - Telehealth Challenges - Room B3

11:00am - 11:15am
Ten Years of Telehealth: Telepractice Principles and Lessons Learned from RIDBC

Cassandra Schubert, RIDBC, New South Wales, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
Challenges and opportunities in delivering school-based allied health care via telehealth

Danette Langbecker & Lisa Garner, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

11:30am - 11:45am
Lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial of a web-based stepped collaborative care intervention

Jennifer Steel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

11:45am - 12:00pm
Barriers and facilitators to adopting telehealth within early hearing support services: A qualitative study using the COM-B model of behaviour change

Mansoureh Nickbakht, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

12:00pm - 12:15pm
The Challenge in establishing Teleaudiology for the Mater Cochlear Implant Clinic

Janeen Jardine, Mater Health Service, Queensland, Australia

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

12:30 PM to 1:15 PM

Lunch and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

1:15 PM to 2:45 PM

Concurrent Session 4 - Diabetes Management - Room B1

1:15pm - 1:30pm
A Comparison of Characteristics of Patients Seen in a Tertiary Hospital Diabetes Telehealth Service versus Specialist Face-to-face Outpatients 

Anish Menon, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

1:30pm - 1:45pm
Mobile applications for diabetes mellitus self-management: a systematic narrative analysis

Anthony Deacon, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

1:45pm - 2:00pm
Effectiveness of mobile-based interventions on health behaviour change in people with diabetes: an overview of systematic reviews

Azam Aslani, Health Human Resources Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Fars, Iran

2:00pm - 2:15pm
A cost-minimization analysis of a telediabetes service to a remote Indigenous community in Western Queensland

Sumudu Wickramasinghe, Centre for Online Health, Queensland, Australia

2:15pm - 2:30pm
Diabetes Telehealth: Bridging gaps in diabetes services in rural Western Australia through innovative technology

Amanda Lee, Diabetes WA, Western Australia, Australia

2:30pm - 2:45pm
Q&A with speakers

1:15 PM to 2:30 PM

Concurrent Session 5 - International Telehealth - Room B2

1:15pm - 1:30pm
A Review of Telemedicine and E-health in Iran as a Developing Country: Situation and Challenges

Alireza Atashi & Sina Marashi, Virtual School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

1:30pm - 1:45pm
The General Practitioner’s Perspective on E-health and Lifestyle Change - a Qualitative Interview Study

Carl Brandt, University of Southern Denmark, Funen, Denmark

1:45pm - 2:00pm
The use of telemedicine for delivering healthcare in Japan: Systematic review of literature published in Japanese and English languages

Jun Ito, Hyogo University, Hyogo-prefecture, Japan

2:00pm - 2:15pm
Trial of an Asynchronous Tele-Audiology Screening Service in a Rural School in South Africa

Maurice Mars, University of KwaZuu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

2:15pm - 2:30pm
Q&A with speakers

2:45 PM to 3:15 PM

Afternoon Tea and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

3:15 PM to 4:30 PM

Concurrent Session 6 - Rural and Remote Health - Room B1

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Evaluating the use a multisite telehealth group model for persistent pain management for rural/remote patients

Elizabeth Ward, Queensland Health and The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia & Heather Scriven South West Hospital & Health Service, Queensland, Australia

3:30pm - 3:45pm
Telehealth is improving the lives of people in Northeast Victoria’s Hume Region

Jane Kealey, Northeast Health Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

3:45pm - 4:00pm
Stakeholder perceptions of telehealth for the delivery of allied health services to children in rural communities

Jessica Campbell, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

4:00pm - 4:15pm
General Medicine Inpatient Telehealth Service in Far North Queensland Remote hospitals: The Trends and Why

Queen Okereke, Cairns Hospital, Queensland, Australia

4:15pm - 4:30pm
Q&A with speakers

3:15 PM to 4:30 PM

Concurrent Session 7 - Specialist Telehealth Services - Room B2

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Paediatric teledermatology in Queensland - a case series from a service combining store-and-forward and live consults for best results

Alexander Tedman, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Queensland, Australia

3:30pm - 3:45pm
The evolution and workflow of the Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Skin Emergency Teledermatology Service

Mariya Hamid, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia

3:45pm - 4:00pm
A telehealth supported rural stroke unit pilot - Informing the future of stroke care in Australia

Matt Page, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

4:00pm - 4:15pm
Transition from a single-site pilot to a state-wide telehealth service: experience from the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine program

Kathleen Bagot, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Victoria, Australia

4:15pm - 4:30pm
Q&A with speakers

4:30 PM

Conference Close

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

ATHS Annual General Meeting

6:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Conference Dinner

Kookaburra Queen River Cruise

Where: Eagle Street Pier, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane CBD QLD 4000
When: 6:30PM arrival for boarding
             7:00PM - 10:00PM river cruise & dinner

The iconic Kookaburra Queen paddle wheelers have been cruising the Brisbane River since their launch in 1986. The vessels have been fully restored and will take you on a cruising journey to view Brisbane’s best sights including the beautiful Botanic Gardens, Kangaroo Point Cliffs, Maritime Museum, Southbank precinct, the Story Bridge and many more of this city’s sensational attractions.

      

8:00 AM

Registration Open

Boulevard Level, BCEC

9:00 AM to 9:50 AM

Opening Session Day 2

Welcome Day Two

Keynote Address: My Health Record and the Digital Health Strategy for Australia
Kim Webber, Australian Digital Health Agency, New South Wales, Australia

Q&A session with Kim Webber

9:50 AM to 10:30 AM

Oral Poster Session

Addressing primary care access challenges in regional and remote WA with after hours telehealth
Amandeep Hansra, Telstra Health, New South Wales, Australia

Dermatologist remuneration expectations for store-and-forward teledermoscopy
Centaine L. Snoswell, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Does utilising an m-health platform enhance cardiac rehabilitation participation?
Marlien Varnfield, CSIRO, Queensland, Australia

Engineering a mobile-based self-management system for tubercular patients: TBMed Development study
Shararaeh R. Niakan Kalhori, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Telehealth throughout the Cancer Journey
Michelle Judd, GV Health, Victoria, Australia

Flying Doctor Telehealth: A collaborative effort and partnership approach to delivering Telehealth services in rural Victoria 
Jocelyn Syme, Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria, Victoria, Australia

Usability Of A Personal Assistant And Health Coach Application To Support Telerehabilitation Post-Stroke 
Maayken van den Berg, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia

CRE in Telehealth Update
Professor Len Gray, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Morning Tea and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 8 - Speech and Language Therapies - Room B1

11:00am - 11:15am
Telehealth and autism: are telehealth language assessments feasible and well tolerated by students on the spectrum?

Rebecca Sutherland, Children's Hospital at Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
Evaluation of the implementation of telehealth dysphagia services within 5 health districts across Queensland Health

Clare Burns, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

11:30pm - 11:45am
Comparing the effect of service model for the delivery of intensive, preventative swallowing therapy to patients with head/neck cancer: A 3-arm RCT

Laurelie Wall, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

11:45am - 12:00pm
Speech pathology and telehealth: from assessment and intervention to community capacity building

Silvia Pfeiffer, CSIRO / Coviu Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia

12:00pm - 12:15pm
The delivery of an aphasia group via telerehabilitation: perceptions of people with aphasia and their communication partners

Deb Theodoras, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 9 - Telehealth Technology - Room B2

11:00am - 11:15am
TAKING IT TO THE STREET- Police ambulance early access to mental health assessment via tele health-PAEAMHATH

Jay Jones & Leanne Gow, Hunter New England Health, New South Wales, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
Telehealth Portal Benefits and Barriers in MNHHS

Linda Cuskelly & Elizabeth Davis, Metro North Hospital Health Service, Queensland, Australia

11:30pm - 11:45am
The Mindfulness App Study For Weight Management, Weight related Behaviours, and Stress in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Lynnette Lyzwinski, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

11:45am - 12:00pm
Family-centred practices in a telehealth model

Melissa McCarthy, RIDBC, New South Wales, Australia

12:00pm - 12:15pm
Mobile health (mHealth) for chronic wound management: a review of the literature

Shararaeh R. Niakan Kalhori, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Concurrent Session 10 - Coordination and Human Factors - B3

11:00am - 11:15am
Chaos to calm - Applying human centred design thinking to telehealth coordination

Karrie Long, Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia

11:15am - 11:30am
Road Deaths Relating to the Attendance of Medical Appointments in Queensland

Phillip Greenup, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

11:30pm - 11:45am
TeleCARE for Country Kids: A case study on the role that Telehealth Coordinators play in ensuring growth and sustainability of a schools-based tele-allied health model

Rebecca Hammond, Royal Far West, New South Wales, Australia

11:45am - 12:00pm
Employment and future aspirations: healthcare workers’ perceptions of a formal e-Health education program

Sisira Edirippulige, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

12:00pm - 12:15pm
Blended Medicine: Lessons Learned from a Combined Telehealth Service

Sean Halloran, Centre for Online Health, Queensland, Australia

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Q&A with speakers

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Lunch and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

1:30 PM to 2:45 PM

Concurrent Session 11 - Orthopaedics - Room B1

1:30pm - 1:45pm
A review of the outcomes of the Princess Alexandra Hospital teleconference fracture clinics over six years

Alison McGill, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland, Australia

1:45pm - 2:00pm
Clavicle Fracture Management: A comparison of a tertiary hospital and rural hospital via telehealth

Megan McKerrow & John North, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia

2:00pm - 2:15pm
Home telehealth for the non-surgical management of chronic spinal pain patients: a service evaluation

Michelle Cottrell, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Queensland, Australia

2:15pm - 2:30pm
Tele-orthopaedic models of care: reported examples in Australia

Monica Taylor, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

2:30pm - 2:45pm
Q&A with speakers

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Concurrent Session 12 - Aged Care - Room B2

1:30pm - 1:45pm
The effectiveness of e-interventions on reducing social isolation in older persons: A systematic review of systematic reviews
Jennifer Chipps, University of the Western Cape, Western Cape, South Africa

1:45pm - 2:00pm
Silver Connections – linking country SA general practitioners (GPs) with Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) residents via telehealth.

Noelene Cooper, Country SA PHN, South Australia, Australia

2:00pm - 2:15pm
Design of a telehealth virtual support groups intervention for carers of people with dementia

Annie Banbury, CQUniversity, Queensland, Australia

2:15pm - 2:30pm
The Aged Care Sector Technology Roadmap for Australia: Implications for Telehealth

Anthony Maeder, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia

2:30pm - 2:45pm
Q&A with speakers

2:45 PM to 3:15 PM

Afternoon Tea and Exhibition / Poster Viewing

3:15 PM to 4:15 PM

Plenary Session and Conference Close

Keynote Address: The WA Emergency Telehealth Service: From initial perceptions to today’s success
Melissa Vernon, WA Country Health, Western Australia, Australia

Q&A session with Melissa Vernon

Reflections on SFT2017

Awards & Closing Speech