Royal Flying Doctors nomeados para os Prêmios de Excelência Empresarial com Physitrack

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is one of the largest aeromedical organisations in the world, providing extensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency service to people around Australia over an area of 7.3 million square kilometres.

Their Tasmanian team recently started delivering a range of rural primary health services in northern Tasmania, working with local doctors, hospitals and community organisations to identify what extra assistance people living with chronic health conditions might need outside of care delivered by their GP.

Services range from physical exercise programs to assistance from mental health workers (often delivered in people’s homes) with the four main target conditions being Cardiovascular disease, COPD, Mental Illness and Dementia.

Face to face consultations are usually ideal, however RFDTAS also started rolling out Physitrack to support participants in between visits. Physitrack allows participants to follow their lifestyle modification plan (consisting of exercises and educational content) as set by the physical health worker via the free PhysiApp client app. This helps them self-manage their condition while reporting back on their progress to the worker in real time. The health outcomes, including outcome measure results, can be assessed and the program modified by workers to continually improve participants’ health in between visits. 

Physitrack’s built-in Telehealth video calling feature also allows the RFDTAS to reach an even greater number of participants, especially those living in remote areas or otherwise unable to meet a health worker in person.

Esta iniciativa foi recentemente reconhecida pela Câmara de Comércio de Launceston, uma vez que a RFDTAS foi nomeada para os prêmios de Excelência Empresarial de 2017 na categoria Inovação.

Os juízes ficaram muito impressionados com o programa e com a forma como a utilização de tecnologia como a Physitrack está fazendo uma diferença significativa para melhor envolver os participantes e ajudá-los a alcançar melhores resultados de saúde, quer presencialmente quer remotamente.

Felicitamos a RFDTAS por esta conquista fantástica.