NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
This is a companion discussion topic for the original eHealth News article:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original eHealth News article:
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Don’t miss this associated article by @Ruth_Large (referenced in the article above):
https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/679032/-My-View---The-Future-of-telehealth-in-New-Zealand.htm
This is pure gold:
In the context of providing only rhetoric to feed telehealth growth, and in the absence of clear strategy for how, where, when, and who will best benefit from telehealth it is no surprise that we have been unable to sustain the telehealth momentum. In the absence of senior decision making, telehealth has become a political hot topic with the potential to polarise the sector which distracts us from the heart of the matter, which is good patient care.
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Telehealth needs to be given a good option of choice before adoption is likely to stick. I often use the analogy where years before the iPhone, clunky resistive PDA phones existed and any consumers got burned by that experience. Adoption by consumers wasn’t really embraced until iPhone 3GS where it became mainstream.
I’m not sure if we have had the iPhone moment yet as we had the pda moment during covid and it was no where near how the potential should be.
Great impactful article @Ruth_Large
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