This submit is authored by visitor contributor Professor Vishaal Kishore, the Government Chair of the Cisco-RMIT Well being Transformation Lab
The latest report of the Australian Royal Fee into Aged Care High quality and Security tells us two vital issues. First – one thing systemic is happening in aged care: the weather of the system aren’t working collectively to supply optimum outcomes. Second – the difficulty is considered one of respect: our system just isn’t treating people the best way that they should be handled.
Our problem is to discover a option to make the Australian aged care system concurrently extra linked, and extra compassionate. And that is the place know-how has an important position to play – however the position is a fancy one. Finished proper, know-how will be core to creating our system extra respectful. Finished poorly, know-how can merely contribute to creating a disrespectful system extra environment friendly at being disrespectful.
On the Well being Transformation Lab, we – together with Cisco – got down to discover the profound position that know-how can play in reorienting our aged care techniques round connection and respect. However these of us who work in innovation within the care economic system know that phrases aren’t sufficient – so we set out not simply to jot down about why know-how can remodel aged care, but in addition to reveal how. The top result’s one thing of which all of us are deeply proud – in a number of quick months RMIT and Cisco had been in a position to reveal how know-how may very well be used to enhance the expertise of individuals in aged care and in addition liberate a lot wanted time for workers to give attention to their core position: delivering care.
Maybe most excitingly, these applied sciences all exist proper now – our activity is simply to rearrange them and deploy them in new and thrilling methods.
Within the coming months, the Well being Transformation Lab is trying to work with business companions, suppliers and others excited by doing one thing significant to enhance the lives of individuals receiving aged care providers in a mess of settings. Based mostly on our preliminary demonstrations I’m assured that authorities and the sector broadly will begin to perceive that know-how just isn’t one thing to be balanced towards ‘human-to-human’ care, however reasonably the very factor that permits it.
To study extra about how the collaboration with Cisco combines analysis and know-how to handle key suggestions, learn our report on Reworking Aged Care.
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