Virtual Consultation 3: Creating an enabling environment for a sustainable telehealth ecosystem
The George Institute for Global Health, India is organizing a series of virtual policy consultations on telehealth & virtual care for patients with chronic conditions. These consultations will bring together experts representing key stakeholders across the entire ecosystem to discuss unmet needs, user expectations, identify barriers and enablers towards a sustainable telehealth ecosystem.
We aim to develop a policy brief on Safe, Effective & Comprehensive Use of Telemedicine with a focus on chronic conditions to support the implementation and scale up of telemedicine in India and other low- and middle-income country settings.
The third virtual consultation is on Creating an enabling environment for a sustainable telehealth ecosystem.
The experts will discuss:
Building blocks of a telehealth ecosystem – future directions
Digital Health Infrastructure and Interoperability for continuum of care
Certification and Accreditation for telemedicine, telehealth and virtual care
Discussants:
Prof Nikhil Tandon, Professor of Endocrinology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Mark Landry, Regional Advisor, WHO South East Asia Regional Office
Dr Atul M Kochhar, CEO, National Accredited Board for Hospitals and Healthcare
Dr Louise Schaper, CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
Dr Sita Rama Budaraju, Senior Consultant- Health, Tata Trusts
Moderators:
Dr Shenoy Robinson: Healthcare Industry thought leader, Chairperson CII Technical Committee on Health
Dr Oommen John: Senior Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, India
As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted delivery of routine healthcare delivery services, the Board of Governors (BoG) of the Medical Council of India (MCI) released of Telemedicine Practice guidelines. The challenges posed by the pandemic and unmet need of health services delivery due to the lock down has generated unprecedented interest in the practice of telemedicine in India.
While telemedicine is an excellent and powerful tool for healthcare providers & hospitals to extend care, there are several challenges and opportunities for its sustainability and scale up. Telemedicine and Telehealth need to be comprehensive, safe, practiced ethically and in the best interest of the patient. The policy brief aims to address these critical aspects to create an enabling environment to leverage telehealth as an enabler for strengthening health services delivery and support universal health coverage in India and other low- and middle-income countries.
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Christine Jenkins is Head of the Respiratory Group at The George Institute for Global Health; Senior Staff Specialist in Thoracic Medicine at Concord Hospital, Sydney; Clinical Professor and Head of Respiratory Discipline at University of Sydney; and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UNSW Sydney. Christine has been Principal Investigator and has led many investigator-initiated and competitively funded clinical trials in airways disease. She has had major roles in advocacy and leadership for lung health in Australia, chairing the National Asthma Campaign, the Federal Government’s National Asthma Advisory Group and many local and international guidelines and implementation initiatives to enhance resources, skills, capacity and clinical outcomes in airways disease. She was president of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand from 2007 - 2009. Christine is an active clinician, and teaches and supervises medical students, advanced trainees and post graduate students.
Professor Bruce Neal
Professor Bruce Neal is Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health Australia and Professor of Medicine, UNSW Sydney. Professor Neal is a UK-trained physician who has 20 years research experience in the clinical, epidemiological, and public health fields with a focus on heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Professor Neal has a longstanding interest in the environmental determinants of high blood pressure and the potential for changes in the food supply to deliver health gains. His work has been characterised by its focus on collaboration, quantitation, translation and impact. He holds professorial appointments at UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London, Flinders University in South Australia, an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney.
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