
Telehealth - building a lasting service post-crisis
12:00noon to 1:00pm, Wednesday 14th October

During national lockdowns due to Covid-19 there was a rapid move to telehealth to provide continuity of care to patients. This gave clinicians and patients a chance to experience telehealth with surveys showing a positive response.
In order to capitalise on this new openness to change, organisations need to invest in suitable telehealth technology and the digital systems and processes that enable a quality telehealth service to be routinely offered and delivered to patients.
This
webinar explores the cultural shift that occurred due to the pandemic and how to make telehealth a sustainable choice for patients and health professionals going forward.
HiNZ would like to thank Visionflex for sponsoring this webinar
How to connect to the webinar
- This webinar is free for anyone to attend.
- Register once for the series and get access to all webinars live and on-demand.
About the Expert Panel
Webinar facilitated by Rebecca McBeth, HiNZ News Editor.
Panel participants are:
- Ruth Large, Clinical Director Information Services and Virtual Healthcare, Waikato DHB
- Lisa Livingstone, Registered Nurse, Nelson Marlborough DHB
- Samantha Murton, President, The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
- Meg McKeown, Medical Director, Moreton Group Medical Services
- Jacqueline Canessa, Senior Clinical Medical Lead, St Vincent's Correctional Health

|
|
Ruth Large Clinical Director Information Services and Virtual Healthcare Waikato DHB
Ruth is an Emergency Physician and Rural Hospitalist working for the largest rural District Health Board in New Zealand. Working as Clinical Director of Thames Hospital since 2012 Ruth finds addressing the inequities of rural practice
challenging. She has had a keen interest in Telehealth since her outback days and has been the Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Telehealth Forum since 2013. She was appointed to the new position of Clinical Director of Virtual Healthcare
for the Waikato DHB in 2015 and both roles allow her a glimpse into the future where patients have better access to the care that they deserve. Ruth lives on a lifestyle block in the North Waikato with her farmer
husband and three children, proving that you can have your cake and eat it too.
|

|
|
Lisa Livingstone Registered Nurse Nelson Marlborough DHB
Lisa Livingstone, RN currently Clinical Lead IT Projects at NMH a role I have been in for the past 2 ½ years. I have previously held a number of nursing management roles in New Zealand and Australia during my 17 year nursing career.
I have been the project manager for the implementation of Patientrack, Smartpage and Telehealth within NMH. I see my role as a translator between technical and clinical and my aim in this role is to give back time to clinicians
and create an integrated and data driven informatics system.
|

|
|
Samantha Murton President The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
Dr Sam Murton is president of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. She’s a working Wellington GP and Senior Lecturer and Trainee Intern Convenor at University of Otago, Wellington. She was the College’s first medical
director and is passionate about supporting general practice. One of Sam’s goals is to advocate for the profession at a national level, and she does this while maintaining practical experience that keeps her advice relevant and realistic.
Her vision for general practice is best reflected in her 2020 work (with collaborators) A manifesto for general practice: an equitable, accessible health-positive model, which can be read on the College’s website.
|

|
|
Meg McKeown Medical Director Moreton Group Medical Services Became a veterinary surgeon 1997 and worked as a small animal vet in Western Sydney Went back to university 2006 and graduated from Medicine 2009 Trained as a rural generalist with the Australian Antarctic Division Polar Medicine Unit in Tasmania (Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine) Summer 2013/2014 at Casey Station Expedition Medical Officer Winter 2014/2015 Macquarie Island Expedition Medical Officer Worked for Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a diplomatic doctor in 2017/2018 in Myanmar Winter Davis Station 2018/2019 Expedition Medical Officer Head Office Medical Officer at Polar Medicine Unit Medical Director of Moreton group Medical Services providing care to homeless in Tasmania Rural Doctor at the Midlands Multi Purpose Health Centre, Tasmania Ambulance Tasmania Telehealth support for secondary triage and Extended Care Paramedic Support AMA Rural Doctor Rep for Tasmania Rural Doctors Association Tasmania Vice President Rural Generalist Coordinating Council of Tasmania FACRRM representative ACRRM intake assessor
|

|
|
Jacqueline Canessa Senior Clinical Medical Lead St Vincent's Correctional Health
|

|
|
Webinar facilitator:
Rebecca McBeth HiNZ News Editor
Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where
she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.
|
How to connect to the webinar
- This webinar is free for anyone to attend.
- Register once for the series and get access to all webinars live and on-demand.
Questions? Email us.
See all upcoming webinars here