How can technology improve the health outcomes of remote & mobile populations?
can include: Proof of concept applications; Poster /PowerPoint concepts; All of the above Contextual issues to consider Patients have no fixed address and cannot be contacted easily: most very remote Indigenous communities in the state don't have street names. Patients are sometimes found by ringing relatives and known associates. Patients can’t read very well or at all: English is one of many languages spoken by both Indigenous and some non -Indigenous Territorians. Some patients may not have a phone. Patients don’t make appointments: there is a high rate of non-attendance. Community centres are few and far between. Aboriginal health beliefs are non-traditional: concepts of health screening, immunization or disease monitoring are alien: – a lot of care is delivered opportunistically if they happen to be in a clinic Non-Indigenous patients in other remote health settings are
