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The Centre for Online Health (COH) received a Commendation in the field of Service Excellence at the 2020 Faculty of Medicine Excellence Awards.

Dermoscopy imaging will help reduce melanoma mortality, which is particularly important given the high prevalence in the Australian population.

Professor Jeanine Young was recently recognised in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List – and has received the Member of the Order of Australia award for her significant service to tertiary education, to medical research, and to nursing.

Faculty of Medicine Dr Emma Thomas from the Centre for Online Health (COH), Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR) has been awarded a prestigious two year post-doctoral fellowship from The Heart Foundation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in rapid changes to the way Australians access health care. We’re now using telehealth more than ever.

COVID-19 has accelerated the uptake of a variety of virtual care services, not least of which where it all began: the telehealth phone call between patient and practitioner.

An Innovative program bringing allied health services into schools across the Western Downs has reached a major milestone.

One hundred and forty-four years after the invention of the telephone, that magical technology has at last been fully, officially integrated into our health system.

Australians have seen a huge increase in telehealth consults since the outbreak of COVID-19 after University of Queensland researchers crunched the numbers from Medicare.

The government announced a huge expansion of telehealth, but some experts are questioning whether we have the infrastructure in place for this to work on such a large scale.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many clinicians and patients are being required to use telehealth for the first time.

MBS item numbers have been made available for specialists to engage with COVID-19 vulnerable patients via videoconference or telephone consultations but most doctors have no experience of telehealth.

Around the world, health authorities are turning to telehealth as an important plank in responses to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

SFT-20 in conjunction with the 12th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society will be held in Queensland, Australia - at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from 7-9 October 2020.

Professor Anthony Smith was recently interviewed as part of a news story with Advance Queensland.

Professor Anthony Smith has been selected to join the roster of experts for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Digital Health Advisory Committee.

Last week, the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) hosted the 19th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth on the Gold Coast, in partnership with the Australasian Telehealth Society.

Dr Liam Caffery has been appointed as chairperson of the DICOM dermatology working group.