Increasing demands on services, productivity and cost containment are pressing corporate organisations to manage their cost structure efficiently. Most ignore the costs associated with days lost to illness, stress and absenteeism. Many pay close attention to injury in the workplace though few pay attention to ongoing management of their most valuable assets – people.

The TeleMedCare Service offers flexibility to corporate OH&S staff to create programmes to manage staff in their workplace environment. For the first time, organisations are able to create sustainable executive management programmes to support and protect their staff through their career.

For the health professional:

• Comprehensive collaboration between specialist carer and general practitioners
• Improves the quality of clinical outcomes
• Contains the unit cost of care
• Interactive management between health carers, the patient and family members
• Dramatic improvement in the patient’s understanding of their health condition
• Shared Care programming
• Readily available longitudinal health record – either electronic or hardcopy
• Breakthrough health improvement for patients
• Continuity of health support and care

For the patient:

• Graphical interaction between system and patient – highlighting of patient’s progress and activity impacts
• Peace of mind for patients and family members
• ‘Real time’ viewing by the patient of their own health status
• Confidence in their own health regimen and willingness to adhere to programme
• Record clinical indicators of an employee’s health status
• Give advice in the event of trends indicating a staff member is at risk
• Provide feedback to the staff and human resources managers
• Graphical presentation of patient trends and recordings
• Give access to health information at a time when the care givers needs it