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This program will use Internet and mobile technologies, such as iPads and mobile phones, to provide accurate, low cost eye exams and coordinated diabetes and heart care to Indigenous people in remote parts of the Northern Territory and Central Australia.
A mobile, web-based, disease management tool will be trialled at four remote Indigenous sites with the aim of empowering Indigenous Health Workers (IHW) to care for the eye health of people at a local, community level.
TEAMSnet is a collaborative program between the University of Melbourne, the Fred Hollows Foundation, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT), Centre for Eye Research Australia and the University of Sydney Clinical Trials Centre. It is additionally funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Abstract adapted from the Fred Hollows Foundation and the University of Melbourne
Centre for Eye Research Australia
Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
Peter Howson Wing
Level 1, 32 Gisborne Street
East Melbourne Vic 3002
Ph: (03) 9929 8360
Fax: (03) 9662 3859
Email: cera-info@unimelb.edu.au
This audiovisual presentation explains TEAMSnet, a program to reduce diabetes related blindness and combat chronic disease among Indigenous Australians. Visons uses interviews with the University of Melbourne's, Associate Professor Sven-Erik Burcell; the Chief Executive Officer of the Fred Hollows Foundation, Brian Doolan; and Associate Professor, Eosse Lamoureux, from the Centre for Eye Research Australia; to detail how the development of a mobile, web-based, disease management tool will empower Indigenous Health Workers (IHW) to care for the eye health of people at a local, community level.
TEAMSnet facilitates the monitoring and timely treatment of patients in rural and remote areas and accesses the specialist diagnostic services of clinics in Sydney and Melbourne to address preventable blindness, including diabetic retinopathy, and cardiovascular disease.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
