Abstract
How will telehealth change primary care in Australia?
Highlights
Australian citizens have access to a range of medical services through Medicare, the national health insurance system
It is timely to consider what effects this abrupt disruption to our primary care service model has had in terms of a range of outcomes, included those articulated by the Bodenheimer’s ’quadruple aim’ of health care, summarised as good health outcomes, alignment with best practice evidence, financial sustainability, and consumer and provider satisfaction/acceptability.[5]
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) jointly define primary care as ’a whole-of-society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level of health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people’s needs and as early as possible along the continuum from health promotion and disease prevention to treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and as close as feasible to people’s everyday environment’
Summary
Australian citizens have access to a range of medical services through Medicare, the national health insurance system. Australian GPs have been requesting new Medicare item numbers for telehealth service provision since the technology to deliver these services became widely available.
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