NZ Telehealth Resource Centre
NZ Telehealth Resource Centre
Welcome to the NZ Telehealth Forum and Resource Centre. This site has guidance and resources for people who want to set up, improve or use a telehealth service within New Zealand. This website brings together guidance and resources that support health providers to implement and grow their telehealth services. Please email us at help@telehealth.org.nz for any specific advice or support.
NZ Telehealth Forum
The NZ Telehealth Forum is a group which includes clinicians, consumers, policymakers, planning and funding managers, ICT experts and industry representatives. Our vision is that telehealth is embedded across the health sector as a sustainable way to deliver healthcare in New Zealand. Our mission is to provide leadership in the use of sustainable models of care enabled by telehealth that supports equitable, patient-centred care.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Like many organisations, we have had a reduction in funding, so as a predominantly volunteer organisation, from July 2024 we are reducing the scale and scope of the Forum and its working groups and community of practices. All groups and COPs will be merged into smaller groups as follows:
+ Telehealth Community of Practice (this merges Internationals COP, Professionals COP, Clinicians COP and Cancer Care)
+ PACE and RPM
+ Research, Audit and Evaluation (RAE) and Data Standards (DS)
+ Digital Health Equity Network (DHEN)
+ AI COP (new COP)
Memberships – we will continue to process memberships. Please complete the online membership form here.
Emails sent to help@telehealth.org.nz will still be monitored, but the amount of support and advice that can be offered will be limited.
What is Telehealth?
Telehealth is the use of information or communication technology to deliver health or medical care from a distance. Learn more here.
Getting Started
A lot of factors contribute to a successful telehealth implementation. The following resources which have been localised for NZ will help guide you.
Telehealth Leadership Group annual meeting
Pictured (left to right): Darren Douglass, Deon York, Lisa Livingstone, Faustin Roman, Christine Walsh, Charis Frethey, Yariv Doron, Craig Green, Andrew Panckhurst, Richard Li, Ruth Large, Kanny Ooi and other members attending via Zoom.
21 August
Latest News
Media Release - New Zealand's Telehealth Forum funding cut
7 AUGUST 2024 MEDIA RELEASE New Zealand’s Telehealth Forum funding cut In mid-July the NZ Telehealth Forum, representing over 370 members, was informed by Health NZ – Te Whatu Ora that its contract, and with it the funding, would not be renewed. Telehealth, or ‘virtual care’ is recognised by Health NZ as a priority to improve accessibility to healthcare for New Zealanders using video, image transfer, phone and other digital media.
