Residential aged care providers from across Australia recently joined Telstra Health – Aged, Disability & Community Care (ADCC) at our Residential User Group Meetings. This year a key focus was on the introduction of the Aged Care Quality Standards, what it means for our clients and how our software can support the change.
Read more >Telstra Health designed Resident Manager software to help aged care providers better manage the administration, resident management, and funding and reporting process. Resident Manager assists providers by helping to create efficiencies, minimise the likelihood of rejections from Medicare, and easily manage the admission and leave process.
Read more >Telstra Health’s residential aged care software, Clinical and Care Management, is compatible with the My Health Record system. When our My Health Record module is configured, users can validate Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) numbers, view documents and create event and shared health summary details.
Read more >A report into gaps in the aged care system for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has explored ways to better embed cultural safety in mainstream care, and expand specialist targeted services.
Read more >The Federal Government has announced that special consideration will be given to rural and remote providers applying for Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR) places.
Read more >The Aged Care Guild has announced that eight of Australia’s largest aged care providers will publish quarterly Consumer Experience Report (CER) evaluations of their facilities.
Read more >The My Health Record opt-out period has been announced as 16 July to 15 October 2018, enabling Australians to opt-out before their digital health record is automatically created.
Read more >The Telstra Health – Aged, Disability & Community Care (ADCC) team recently held a Biggest Morning Tea in aid of the Cancer Council, raising $883 which Telstra Health – ADCC then matched, bringing our donation total to over $1700.
Read more >Aged and community care providers are being asked to complete a survey to help the Department of Health understand the barriers to accessing palliative care for under-served population groups.
Read more >The national Reducing Use of Sedatives (RedUSe) intervention program has seen reductions in the proportion of aged care residents prescribed antipsychotics and benzodiazepines.
Read more >The Federal Government has handed down their 2018-19 Budget, which includes $5 billion towards ageing and aged care over a five year period.
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