10 Jan 2012
In an exciting step forward in the area of eHealth Australian companies Global Health and GP2U Telehealth today announced an exclusive collaboration combining Global Health’s secure messaging platform ReferralNet with the new GP2U Telehealth video conferencing service.
The combined service provides a simple, highly secure, easy to use and more importantly, interoperable Telehealth solution which allows Australian health professionals and specialists to make video conference consultations freely available to GPs and their patients.
Telehealth is where a patient and specialist undertake a consultation via video conference in real time. While video conferencing may never replace the need for face to face consultations, in some circumstances it is acknowledged that it is a highly desirable and valuable solution particularly for those situations where physical access to a specialist or health professional may be difficult or impossible for a patient.
Mathew Cherian, CEO of Global Health said, “We are excited to announce this partnership with GP2U. There are obvious synergies between our secure messaging services and Telehealth and we consider this to be significant step forward in providing a full range of secure communications between patients and their health professionals.”
Dr James Freeman of GP2U Telehealth commented “The combined GP2U and ReferralNet service provides the simplest possible solution while ensuring that security and privacy are never compromised. This extends the reach of specialists while maintaining the safest possible environment for consultations.”
ReferralNet is a fully encrypted secure message delivery (SMD) system designed to meet the NeHTA standards for secure messaging. It has the fastest growing network of users, with thousands of healthcare providers subscribed to the service for the electronic exchange of sensitive and confidential clinical and patient information such as referrals, reports, pathology and radiology requests as well as results and discharge summaries.
Documentation, images, and pathology reports can be exchanged between the patient and consulting specialist securely before, during or after a Tele consultation using the ReferralNet system.
Global Health was the only intermediary to successfully send and receive at the IHE Australia Connectathon in April 2010, successfully proving ReferralNet interoperability with other implementations and conformance with the Australian Standard for SMD.
For additional information on ReferralNet or GP2U Telehealth please contact:
info@global-heath.com / info@GP2U.com.au or visit www.global-health.com / www.gp2u.com.au
About Global Health Limited: Global Health is a leading provider of e-health solutions to the Australian Healthcare industry supporting healthcare delivery in hospitals and community settings.
Global Health supports the business, clinical and operational needs of Healthcare providers committed to the effective management of chronic diseases and health promotion programs. Internet connectivity is embedded in Global Health applications to promote secure information sharing, financial transactions and the use of technology in ways that transform the way healthcare is delivered.
Global Health is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and operates in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Malaysia. For further information about Global Health and its products, visit www.global-health.com.
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