Goondir Health Virtual Health Service

January 2020December 2022
Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN

 

Goondir Health is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service  providing primary health care and related health services to clients in the Darling Down's townships of Dalby, Oakey and St George and surrounding areas.  The Virtual Health Service (VHS) offers remote physiological monitoring and management for clients with chronic disease. Goondir have 198 clients enrolled in the VHS.

This partnerships will evaluate the clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness, organisational impact, and client preference of this new model of care delivery.  The evaluation will be undertaken over short, medium, and long term. Initial resulst show the clients found the VHS system easy to learn and use, and the VHS has been very successful at improving client empowerment, engagement and increasing interactions with their health care professional.

 

Project members

Professor Anthony Smith

Centre Director of Centre for Online Health
Centre for Online Health
Affiliate of Queensland Digital Health Centre
Queensland Digital Health Centre

Professor Liam Caffery

Professorial Research Fellow
Centre for Health Services Research
Affiliate of Centre for Online Health
Centre for Online Health
Affiliate of Dermatology Research Centre
Dermatology Research Centre
Affiliate of Queensland Digital Health Centre
Queensland Digital Health Centre

Dr Helen Haydon

Affiliate of Centre for Online Health
Centre for Online Health
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Health Services Research

Dr Centaine Snoswell

Senior Research Fellow Health Economics
Centre for Health Services Research