Speaker Presentations

Please find below the presentations available for download. Please be aware that only those presenatations where the presenter has provided consent to publish are provided below. 

keynote presentations

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

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

Monday 30 October 2017

Concurrent Session 1

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

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

Concurrent Session 2

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

A MultiDisciplinary Renal Telehealth Service: Lessons Learnt
Karen Lucas, Metro South Health, Queensland, Australia

Ipswich Hospital Telepharmacy Service – an innovation in inpatient clinical pharmacy activities
Katherine Nunn & Cal Winckel, Ipswich General Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Outreach Rehabilitation Services
Shane Delves, Murrumbidgee Local Health District, New South Wales, Australia

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

Concurrent Session 3

Ten Years of Telehealth: Telepractice Principles and Lessons Learned from RIDBC
Cassandra Schubert, RIDBC, New South Wales, Australia

Challenges and opportunities in delivering school-based allied health care via telehealth
Danette Langbecker & Lisa Garner, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial of a web-based stepped collaborative care intervention
Jennifer Steel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

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

Concurrent Session 4

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

Mobile applications for diabetes mellitus self-management: a systematic narrative analysis
Anthony Deacon, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

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

A cost-minimization analysis of a telediabetes service to a remote Indigenous community in Western Queensland
Sumudu Wickramasinghe, Centre for Online Health, Queensland, Australia

Diabetes Telehealth: Bridging gaps in diabetes services in rural Western Australia through innovative technology
Amanda Lee, Diabetes WA, Western Australia, Australia

Concurrent Session 5

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

The General Practitioner’s Perspective on E-health and Lifestyle Change - a Qualitative Interview Study
Carl Brandt, University of Southern Denmark, Funen, Denmark

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

Trial of an Asynchronous Tele-Audiology Screening Service in a Rural School in South Africa
Maurice Mars, University of KwaZuu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Concurrent Session 6

Telehealth is improving the lives of people in Northeast Victoria’s Hume Region
Jane Kealey, Northeast Health Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

General Medicine Inpatient Telehealth Service in Far North Queensland Remote hospitals: The Trends and Why
Queen Okereke, Cairns Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Concurrent Session 7

The evolution and workflow of the Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Skin Emergency Teledermatology Service
Mariya Hamid, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia

A telehealth supported rural stroke unit pilot - Informing the future of stroke care in Australia
Matt Page, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

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

Tuesday 31 Ocotber 2017

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

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

Concurrent Session 8

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

Speech pathology and telehealth: from assessment and intervention to community capacity building
Silvia Pfeiffer, CSIRO / Coviu Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia

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

Concurrent Session 9 

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

Telehealth Portal Benefits and Barriers in MNHHS
Linda Cuskelly & Elizabeth Davis, Metro North Hospital Health Service, Queensland, Australia

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

Mobile health (mHealth) for chronic wound management: a review of the literature
Shararaeh R. Niakan Kalhori, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Concurrent Session 10

Road Deaths Relating to the Attendance of Medical Appointments in Queensland
Phillip Greenup, Queensland Health, Queensland, Australia

Employment and future aspirations: healthcare workers’ perceptions of a formal e-Health education program
Sisira Edirippulige, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Blended Medicine: Lessons Learned from a Combined Telehealth Service
Sean Halloran, Centre for Online Health, Queensland, Australia

Concurrent Session 11

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

Clavicle Fracture Management: A comparison of a tertiary hospital and rural hospital via telehealth
Megan McKerrow & John North, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Home telehealth for the non-surgical management of chronic spinal pain patients: a service evaluation
Michelle Cottrell, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Queensland, Australia

Tele-orthopaedic models of care: reported examples in Australia
Monica Taylor, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Concurrent Session 12

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

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

Design of a telehealth virtual support groups intervention for carers of people with dementia
Annie Banbury, CQUniversity, Queensland, Australia