Week 1: History Taking And Clinical Record Keeping

Question 1

Discuss Digital Health in relation to Health Care and Physiotherapy

Answer 1

• The challenge for health care delivery in Australia
• Driven by citizens: their health and wellbeing is driven by them and their expectations
• Harvest data in real time from sources within and outside traditional health settings

Patient specific dats (record systems)
Supporting patients (supporting professionals)
Individual patient care (expertise and knowledge)

Digitise Health era is characterised by 7 major shifts:

1. Citizen consumer centricity
2. New entrants
3. Industry convergence
4. Role convergence
5. Origin of data
6. Analytics and Algorithms
7. Broader than health

Question 2

Discuss Digital Health Records

Answer 2

• Accessible by different health professionals
• Concerns about privacy
• Aim to enable patients and health professionals to better manage their health via shared health summary

Digital record keeping (Physiotherapy):
- Rehab specific
- Health apps
- Wearable devices
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Question 3

Understand how ehealth can be used to deliver health care differently to patients

Answer 3

APA:
In the context of changes to practice in response to COVID-19,
telehealth is a consultation where the client and physiotherapist are
simultaneously present during the consultation and have synchronous
audio-visual communication but are not co-located.

E.g:

• NSW Health Get Healthy Telephone Coaching
• Tele rehabilitation (clinical assessment, clinical therapy)