Healthcare IT News February 16, 2023
It also reduced unnecessary hospital-to-hospital transfers by 72%.
SA Health has recently turned to the cloud to provide more efficient stroke care to patients living in regional and rural areas.
According to a media release, the SA Telestroke Service has been using the cloud-based telehealth platform Zeus to gather vital health information from stroke patients, including brain scans and consultation records, into a single platform. It was deployed by the Australian Stroke Alliance across 61 hospitals in regional SA and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory as part of a five-year agreement with SA Health.
Since Zeus was launched last year, the service has received over 440 calls.
Meanwhile, SA Health is working to enable some regional hospitals to...