Telehealth Services
Since day one, we have been offering and fine tuning our Telehealth Exercise Physiology services to ensure we can deliver high quality consultations to our customers across the country.
For video consultations we use Coviu, a healthcare specific, encrypted software platform designed by the CSIRO to optimise the security and effectiveness of telehealth consultations. We are also using SimpleSet software to prescribe individualised exercise plans and education to each patient.
Benefits of Telehealth consultations:
- Evidence based: telehealth interventions have shown promise in improving the outcomes of patients with various conditions including musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary/cardiovascular, metabolic, and psychological.
- Accessibility: improved accessibility to healthcare particularly for patients in remote locations or those with reduced mobility.
- Cost-Effective: reductions in patient and practitioner travel costs allows for financial resources to utilised for more meaningful purposes.
- Time-efficient: reductions in time away from home allow patients to spend more time doing the things they love.
- Reduced infection risk: reduced risk of community infection in immunosuppressed/ vulnerable patients, particularly through pandemics such as COVID-19.
Who We Can Help
We are currently offering Telehealth consultations to appropriate WorkCover, CTP, Life Insurance, NDIS, Medicare, DVA and private patients. Medicare and DVA are supporting Telehealth Exercise Physiology until 30 September 2020 as a part of COVID-19 measures and we will bulk bill patients until that date; following that date we will await further advice from the Federal Government to determine if it is possible to continue service delivery via Telehealth under those schemes.
