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Healthcare Systems
Report Your Task
Individually, develop a 1500-word report on how the use of digital health care technologies can help address some of the challenges with providing health care to rural and remote Australians.
Assessment Description
The purpose of this individual assessment is to holistically consider the key learnings throughout the subject and evaluate how current and emerging trends in digital health care technologies are being used and can be used to assist with many of the challenges facing the Australian health care sector.
Assessment Instructions
Australia is the 6th largest country by land mass in the world yet has only a population of just over 26 million people, most of whom are in urban environments. Despite Australia's policy of providing universal and equal access to health care to its people, it continues to struggle with equity when it comes to rural and remote regions, many of which are populated by Indigenous Australians.
This assessment requires you to evaluate the role digital health care technologies, how they can help to address some of these gaps to the benefit of all stakeholders.
Areas covered in your report should include:
A Cover page
An Executive summary
A Table of Contents
An overview of the current health care challenges in providing quality care and service provision for rural and remote Australians.
A critical discussion on the current digital health care technologies available for rural and remote communities.
Discuss the ethical issues related to the use of digital health care technologies for rural and remote regions, including those who identify as Indigenous Australians.
Identify the key rural and remote stakeholders involved and the benefits they receive using digital health care technologies.
A conclusion
References.
You are required to use at least 10 sources of information and reference these in accordance with the Kaplan Harvard Referencing Style. These may include websites, government publications, industry reports, census data, journal articles, and newspaper articles.
The cover page, Executive Summary, Table of Contents, Reference List, tables, images , and graphs are excluded from the word count.