This webpage provides information for patients, NBMLHD staff, general practitioners and community health staff in relation to the Telehealth and Technology Centre. This tab provides general information for all areas of the community, while the tabs above provide targeted information for each group. Use the video call buttons to the right to quickly access any consultation you have scheduled.

Our Mission

At the Telehealth and Technology Centre, we are driven to make healthcare more accessible. Our emphasis is on the development of telehealth technology as a step towards improving communication and enhancing the quality and access to services for you, our local population. We want to make telehealth technology an everyday part of life, available when you need it so we can better look after your health and wellbeing.

"There is good evidence that if we reduce the [door-to-needle] time so that we can do early thrombolysis that, eventually, we will reduce the disability associated with a stroke and subsequently less time spent in hospital ... and the rehabilitation outcomes will be much better."

Dr Mohamed Shaffi, Staff Specialist, Neurology, Nepean Hospital

Recognition

In addition to the below awards, achievements and recognitions, we have also disseminated research findings through international publications and telehealth related events, including a Guest Editorial for an IEEE Journal. 

Our Team

Provide telehealth technology to enhance patient care and experience by innovatively bringing patients in contact with specialists and skilled health professionals over a distance, with patient safety and privacy continuing to be of the utmost importance. The telehealth team provide vital knowledge for the successful implementation of telehealth initiatives and ensure that patient care remains the priority.

Tanya Baldacchino

Manager, District Telehealth Program

Brooke Saxby

Telehealth Project Officer

Tracy Mullavey

Telehealth Project Officer

Our Leadership Group provides executive oversight of all Telehealth initiatives within Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District. The purpose of the centre is to foster and pilot clinician-sponsored telehealth models of care, for the purposes of providing health services to patients who live in regional and rural areas in NSW. The Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District has placed an emphasis on the development of telehealth technology as a step towards improving communication and enhancing the quality and access to services to our local population. All the telehealth initiatives at the Telehealth and Technology Centre have research as a key objective to measure and disseminate the best practices developed and implemented. The centre aims to broaden the repertoire of clinician sponsored telehealth models of care as well as to expand and embed existing telehealth initiatives undertaken across the NBMLHD.

Kym Scanlon

Director of Planning NBMLHD

Professor Mohamed Khadra

Founder

Associate Professor Jinman Kim

Research Director

Contact Us

If you would like to talk to someone about Telehealth in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, please contact the Telehealth Team on (02) 4734 4735.