WA Country Health Service (WACHS) is considering extending the emergency telehealth service it provides from its 24/7 Command Centre to also include remote patient monitoring in inpatient, emergency, high dependency and intensive care beds in its network of public hospitals and nursing posts.
The idea is to further develop its existing services by promoting early recognition of patient deterioration at the bedside and in the Command Centre, and to allow patients to be cared for closer to home or on country.
The WACHS emergency telehealth service links emergency doctors in Perth to rural and remote healthcare providers, many of them nurses staffing small clinics where there is no on-call doctor, by video and voice call.
