Telemedicine in Australia: Barriers, ICT and Management Issues, and Recommendations

Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS
Public Health Informatics
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Table of Contents
1. Twitter Review...........................................................................................................2
2. Telemedicine in Australia..........................................................................................5
2.1 Summarise the barriers to the uptake of telemedicine in Australia.....................6
2.2 Classification into ICT issues and management issues and evaluate current
methods..................................................................................................................................7
2.3 Practical recommendations based on evidence....................................................8
References......................................................................................................................9

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1. Twitter Review
@Croakeyblog: From the study that has been done of the Twitter account for
Melissa Sweet or @croakeyblog, it has been identified that she posts a lot of tweets based on
the National and international health any use over other international issues. Throughout the
last week she has posted feedbacks and news from all around the world including the health
of the aboriginals in different parts of the world and people working with the health concerns
of the aboriginals, news about engineer’s data governance of @WePublicHealth and also
different health related tweets. From the Twitter profile that she has been handling, it is
evident that she does not only concerned about the people living in a specific country but she
tries to raise awareness of all the health-related issues of people around the world (Lin et al.,
2018). Not only that, she's also responsible for spreading the news about various technical
blogs that describe why technology is essential in depicting the health data of people all
around the world. She has shared blog about insurance company want thing the fitness data of
the customers and why people should be worried about sharing the fitness data to the
insurance companies. The blog is informative enough to let people not share their fitness data
to insurance companies as this might have the ability of lowering the premiums. It also
informs a lot about the rule being mandatory and what would be the estimated outcomes if
sharing fitness data to the insurance company was made mandatory. Her posts and shared
information speak a lot about the aboriginals and the works that people all around the world
have been performing about the health concerns of the aboriginals all around the world. She
also posts information about the various kinds of programs going all around the world related
to the health of elderlies and how these events create an open forum for the people to be
much more aware about the health-related concerns of people (Nelson & Staggers, 2016).
Her tweets informative and random. The shared posts are frequent in nature and this is why
people would find information from all around the world. However, her shared posts are

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extremely random in number and they occur at every single instance in such a way that
sometimes it becomes difficult to keep up pace with the information she shares over Twitter.
This is because the amount of information comes in bulk loads and people can easily lose
their chosen information to see from if the refresh button is pressed at any point of time. The
sharing of information could be based on time or else people might lose track about the
sharing of information.
@ehealthpaho: The study of this particular Twitter account is about Pan American
health organisation which is the branch of World health organisation. It is an organisation
that uses the influence of Information and Communication Technology to improve the public
health all around America (Carroll, Travers, & Richardson, 2016). The profile clearly depicts
that all the post shared and followed links on the account are not endorsements and just
information shared for people all around the world. Unlike the previous account which shared
health information and other unrelated information as well, this account is mostly e dedicated
for endorsing the health-related information that has a close proximity of main influenced by
Information and Communication Technology (Balestra, 2018). It also has highlighted posts
from various parts of the world and from different times based on the priority or the
importance of the information. It is also shared blogs for understanding different influence of
Information and Communication Technology. The idea that is obtained from this Twitter
profile is that this hands profile shares all kinds of information about Information and
Communication Technology and its importance in health of people all around the world right
now. For example, it has shared information about the role of telemedicine in postoperative
care and usual cares of other formats of decisions about prostate cancer. However, it has been
found that most of the tweets that are shared from this Twitter profile are usually translated
from Spanish. It also shares information about the feasibility of using a smartwatch for
intensively monitoring patients and their health. It also shares information about chronic