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Healthcare IT

AUS university opens telehealth simulation lab

By Adrienne Valdez | 29 September 2011

The University of Western Australia (UWS) recently opened its Telehealth Research and Innovation Lab (THRIL), to simulate telehealth services for remote and stay-at-home patients.

The new facility will focus on developing new software and hardware for remote sensing and monitoring, patient communication and video image processing; automated systems which assist patients remotely and maintain independence, provide electronic decision support to carers and clinicians; and data acquisition, management and analysis for research.

With a fully furnished home lounge room equipped with sensors, the lab will transmit data about its occupants to researchers in a control room residing next door.

UWS School of Computing and Mathematics and Professor in Health Informatics, Anthony Maeder said in an official statement, “It is essential the technology and the systems used to monitor patients and send and interpret the data are developed in collaboration with those who will be using it.”

“The THRIL facility uniquely draws on the expertise of researchers in medicine, nursing, allied health and computer science within UWS and beyond to deliver a truly multidisciplinary approach to telehealth and eHealth.”

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