The Future of Technology in Community and Aged Care

Michael Boyce

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Community & Aged Care SectorKey Trends & Issues

Links between Health & Aged Care Systems

AGEINGPopulation

Consumer Empowerment

Home Care packages projected to increase from 60k in 2017 to over

Over 85s growing from 420k to 1.2M by 2020

by 2022

100k

Consumer directed care in aged & disabilities sectors

Competition means more focus on cost and quality

Elderly patients re-admitted to hospital within a month!20%

Average aged care resident

has 9 Medications

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Aged Care a linked continuum

Source: Aged Care Capability Report. Austrade. August 2013.

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Ontario Telemedicine Network results from home health monitoring, combined with remote care coordination

Better Care in the HomeEnabling People to Stay at Home for Longer

60% Reduction in hospitalisations

70% reduction in Emergency Department visits

A study of 813 people with Congestive Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that for every $1 invested in telemedicine, $5 in hospital costs were avoided ”

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Improving Community Care efficiency through better systems

Efficient Rostering of Staff

Route Optimisation

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Better links between health and aged care:Improved Medication Management

Aged care facility

GP

Pharmacy

Single medicationchart

GP updates e-medication chart

Facility administersbased on e-medication chart

Pharmacy dispensesfrom e-medication

chart

From handwritten medication charts….

…. To a single shared medication record

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Better links between Health and Aged Care:Telehealth in Residential Aged Care

US telehealth company Teladoc does 11,600 telehealth medical consultations per month

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Aged care residents see GPs an average of 14 times a year; this is both inconvenient for the GP and disruptive for the patient

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