Aged care joins forces in technological innovation

The aged care sector is being urged to join forces to look at current and future use of technology to improve service delivery.

Posted May 20th 2015

by DPS

<p>Jennene Buckley, Feros Care chief executive, says the bootcamp is a chance to bring stakeholders together to analyse and dissect the best ways of utilising new technologies.</p> — Jennene Buckley, Feros Care chief executive, says the bootcamp is a chance to bring stakeholders together to analyse and dissect the best ways of utilising new technologies.

Aged care provider, Feros Care, will host a Smart Technologies Bootcamp in August to enable the aged and community care sector to share information and review the ‘trials and errors’ other organisations have experienced in rolling out new technologies.

Seminars and workshops will discuss various technologies used by aged care providers to give attendees the opportunity to share knowledge on issues they have encountered to allow the sector to deliver the highest quality care for seniors in Australia.

One of the major sponsors of this event is Tunstalls, an international provider of telehealthcare solutions specialising in tailoring smart assistive technologies to better manage the risk of falls within the home.

William Grant, senior business development manager, from Tunstall Healthcare, sees the Smart Technologies Bootcamp as an opportunity to share its extensive industry experience to help build capability in the use of technologies within the sector.

“Technology has the potential to change traditional service models and make a huge impact for organisations adopting it,” Mr Grant says.

“We hope that by sharing our practical experience in telehealthcare project planning, implementation and support, aged care providers will gain a new confidence in evaluating and integrating the use of smart assistive technologies,” he adds.

Feros Care will discuss the implementation and learnings of its technological innovations including the My Health Clinic at Home care package, and moving to the Microsoft Cloud.

Jennene Buckley, Feros Care chief executive, says the aim is to share and prosper from the knowledge and experience from expert organisations that supply and operate these systems as part of their business.

“This Bootcamp is a chance to bring aged and community care stakeholders together and to analyse and dissect the best ways of utilising new technologies in the quest to provide seniors with better care,” Ms Buckley says.

“Aged care technology is designed to make the lives of the provider and client easier, however the reality is that until the system can be tailored to match our exact needs, we spend precious time and resources trying to rectify these problems,” she says.

According to Ms Buckley, the industry has the opportunity to collaborate and provide feedback to the technology developers on the types of technology which needs to be available in the future to meet the challenges of an ageing population.

“By working in partnership, the aged care sector can analyse the benefits and shortcomings of current systems so we can avoid travelling along the same path in the future,” she says.

The bootcamp will run over two days covering virtual case management, m-health, social connectedness, falls and mobility, dementia technologies and telehealth.

Registrations are now open. Book before 25 June 2015 to receive 15% off the ticket price.