This publish is authored by visitor contributor Professor Vishaal Kishore, the Govt Chair of the Cisco-RMIT Well being Transformation Lab
The current report of the Australian Royal Fee into Aged Care High quality and Security tells us two crucial issues. First – one thing systemic is occurring in aged care: the weather of the system aren’t working collectively to provide optimum outcomes. Second – the difficulty is one in every of respect: our system just isn’t treating people the way in which that they should be handled.
Our problem is to discover a strategy to make the Australian aged care system concurrently extra related, and extra compassionate. And that is the place expertise has a vital position to play – however the position is a fancy one. Completed proper, expertise may be core to creating our system extra respectful. Completed poorly, expertise 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 expertise can play in reorienting our aged care programs 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 write down about why expertise can remodel aged care, but additionally to reveal how. The top result’s one thing of which all of us are deeply proud – in a couple of quick months RMIT and Cisco had been in a position to reveal how expertise could possibly be used to enhance the expertise of individuals in aged care and likewise liberate a lot wanted time for employees to concentrate on 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 seeking to work with trade companions, suppliers and others all for doing one thing significant to enhance the lives of individuals receiving aged care companies in a mess of settings. Primarily based on our preliminary demonstrations I’m assured that authorities and the sector broadly will begin to perceive that expertise just isn’t one thing to be balanced towards ‘human-to-human’ care, however reasonably the very factor that permits it.
To be taught extra about how the collaboration with Cisco combines analysis and expertise to handle key suggestions, learn our report on Remodeling Aged Care.
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