Health Solutions

See the table below for a guide on the relevant solutions for your business, and then read the section for each product.

	Telstra Business Broadband	MIMS on a PDA	Telstra Mobile Broadband	Desktop Messaging	Xora Timetrack Gold
GPs
Pharmacists
Aged & Community Care
Aged Health

A high speed Telstra Business Broadband connection is a prescription for more – more time, more savings, more efficient practice management and more responsive patient care.

• Create a more efficient practice with high speed Internet access
Help improve your cashflow by processing Medicare claims online – payment received from Medicare in days instead of weeks plus reduced paperwork and mail costs associated with lodging paper based claims.

• Improve patient care through faster access to medical information
Quicker access to patient test results, records, radiology images and all the medical information you need to make a fast, informed decision. You can even arrange a video conference with colleagues and peers and share information to reach a faster diagnosis.  Business broadband gives you business grade service and access to Australia’s biggest fixed broadband network.

• Keep patient records and data secure
Keep patient files secure with our automated Remote Backup facility (available on selected plans) plus advanced web and email security features to minimise the threat from most known viruses, worms and hackers. Ensure your critical information is protected – supported by Telstra’s managed data centres.

• Government incentives available
Selected Telstra Business Broadband Access, Starter and Advantage plans are now eligible for the Pharmacy Connectivity Incentive which awards pharmacies up to $880 per year from 1 January 2008 to 30 June 2010 for maintaining a business grade Internet connection.

GP and Specialist practices may also be entitled to a one-off incentive of up to $1000 for taking up Medicare Online between 1 September 2007 and 31 December 2009. An 18 cents incentive is also awarded for each electronic bulk bill and patient claim transmitted between 1 September 2007 and 31 December 2009.   

Recommended plan – Telstra Business Broadband Advantage

• High speed broadband to enhance productivity
• Remote Backup (up to 2GB for one system)
• Business grade technical support from dedicated business internet specialists – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year
• Wireless-capable Cisco Systems router
• Reliability - 99.9% network availability with Australia’s largest broadband provider¹
• Onsite router installation
• Hosted internet security scanning for five users
• Comprehensive Mail and Web Protection configuration
• Static IP address
• Choice of optional extras – Mail & Web Control, Business Mail, Business Support

It’s easy to access the information you need to make decisions when patients come to you, but what happens when you go to them? Today’s health professionals are mobile and require fast access to MIMS:

• GPs, clinical psychiatrists or other medical or allied specialists consulting aged care, mental health and other patients in residential facilities or hospitals
• nurses in the field or on ward rounds
• aged care and community health team members on home visits
• locums working across large rural areas or in multiple city locations

Take MIMS with you. Keep medicine and dosage information at your fingertips with reliable access to the MIMS medicines information database on a compatible Telstra Next G™ touch screen PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, a type of mobile device with advanced features) on Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile network.

MIMS on PDA2 for Pocket PC is an up to date, portable, local electronic reference product for medicines information in Australia. You get the full range of abbreviated medicines information – updated every month, so you can easily check potential interactions between all prescription, common OTC and herbal medicines, look up correct dosages and search by drug name (generic or brand), therapeutic class, action and indication, and company.

Benefits

With MIMS in your pocket, you can:

• make the right prescription decisions
• reduce the risk of medication errors
• deliver fast, efficient patient care on the move
• Search by Generic or Brand name, Therapeutic class, Action and indication, Company
• Updated monthly. You can check for updates to MIMS on PDA2 and download the latest version simply by docking your PDA with your PC or via the MIMS application on your PDA
  

• HTC Diamond & Touch Dual 850
• Palm Treo Pro
• Sony Ericsson X1
• i-mate ™ 8502 & 9502
  

Try MIMS on PDA 2 for Pocket PC for 7 days free of subscription charges once you’ve connected a compatible Next G™ PDA with Telstra.

View Pricing

Once you have connected a compatible Next G™ PDA with Telstra, you can contact MIMS on 1800 800 629 to subscribe to MIMS on PDA2 for Pocket PC for an annual subscription fee of $170.

If you can’t check patient records or access other vital information you need to make a diagnosis or manage care plans, you can’t do your job properly. So what can you do when work takes you away from your practice? Take them with you. Telstra Mobile Broadband, powered by the Next G™ network, Australia’s largest and fastest national mobile broadband network makes it possible.

Telstra is leading the mobile broadband revolution with the Telstra Elite^TM USB Modem is Telstra's latest high speed mobile broadband browsing device, providing typical download speeds of 550kbps to 8Mbps in selected CBD, metro and regional areas² and typical download speeds of 550kbps to 3Mbps in other areas².

Benefits

• Be in contact with the clinic. Download radiology images, complete online claiming or send patient referrals electronically via your practice management software at broadband speeds during house visits or from home. Telstra Mobile Broadband powered by the Next G™ network gives you convenient, simple access to work in many places
• Convenience and flexibility. Whether you want to download a medical journal article or just browse for information, Telstra Mobile Broadband gives you on-demand access.
• Improve productivity and efficiency. Access your online business or drug information at broadband speeds.
• Plugs straight into your laptop through your USB port
• Microsoft Windows and Mac OS compatible
• Small, lightweight design and build
• Simple installation and easy to use

When patients don’t turn up for appointments or to collect prescriptions, it costs you money. When you call to remind them, it costs you time. With Telstra Desktop Messaging, you can schedule and automatically send mobile SMS, picture or video messages and reminders to patients, staff or suppliers at broadband speed from your PC or laptop. Telstra Desktop Messaging integrates with MS Outlook or Lotus Notes Calendar and can automatically send SMS/MMS based on set up of simple business rules, without need for any manual intervention.

Benefits

• Increase productivity – contact patients quickly and easily at broadband speed
• Work more efficiently – spend less time calling patients
• Manage your workload – schedule or change appointments to suit your workday
• Improve patient care – let patients know when test results or prescriptions are ready
• Maximise business opportunities - help reduce patient ‘no shows’, send appointment reminders and request confirmation replies, alert pharmacy customers to special offers and new stock arrivals

Aged and community care providers are burdened with copious amounts of paperwork required to complete assessments at patients’ bedsides or in the field, then having to re-enter the same information again when they return to their PC. How can you streamline these tasks better to improve productivity – and allow nurses to spend more time with patients?

Xora TimeTrack Gold is a mobile application supported on a range of compatible Next G™ mobile phones and offers the following benefits:

Benefits

• Wireless Forms – Xora TimeTrack Gold enables you to capture patient information electronically using a compatible mobile phone reducing the hassle of managing paper based task duplication. Information can be linked back to central database records.
• Wound Management - Capture photos of patient wounds on the job with images automatically attached to the active job or patient record, and can be viewed and assessed by a clinician.
• Fast job dispatch- Easily track location of field nurses and send the closest one to see a patient along with driving directions and patient records with medical history etc for faster, better service delivery.
• Emergency alerts - workers can send silent alerts from the phone via email showing their address and a link to a map showing their approximate location in case of emergency.

Telstra Business Health Solutions is a proud supporter of the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation