News

The March 2009 Newsletter for the ViTCCU project is now available, click on the link to open. Read more...

The October Newsletter for the ViTCCU project is now available, click on the link to open. Read more...

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) is a leading provider of specialist public health services for children and adolescents and is the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, caring for children from Tasmania and southern New South Wales as well as other states around Australia and overseas. Read more...

Where is Bendigo, Echuca, Swan Hill and Mildura? These towns are larger regional centres in the North West of Victoria. The travel times by road from Melbourne are Bendigo 2 hours, Echuca 3 hours, Swan Hill 4.5 hours and Mildura 6 hours. Check other news stories for information about each hospital and its demographics. Open this story to view a detailed map of Victoria. Read more...

The September newsletter is now available, click on the link to open and print. Read more...

Bendigo Health is a public health facility, with a staff of almost 3000, covering a catchment one quarter the size of Victoria with over 300,000 people. Read more...

Confidence and enthusiasm from the clinical teams is high and there is a great deal of cooperative behaviour being recognised between sites and providers Read more...

Echuca Regional Health (ERH) is located on the Murray River within the Campaspe Shire at the township of Echuca, where the population is in excess of 12,000 residents. Read more...

In the regional sites, a mobile cart will be used to host the video conferencing system. The cart will be able to be positioned at the bedside of the patient so that the advising physician can view the patient condition remotely and advise the treating physician. Read more...

The project is on track to deliver the first sites (Bendigo and Alfred) in late September 2008, with go live expected by mid October. The scope has increased to include a workstation in the Bendigo Critical Care Unit and a second workstation in the HDU units within Echuca and Swan Hill, however there has been no negative impact to the project budget. Adult Retrieval Victoria remain a phone service at this stage due to insufficient funding for their inclusion as a scope change. Read more...

St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne opened in 1893 – it is part of the Sisters of Charity Health Service, Australia’s largest non-government, not-for-profit health care provider. Read more...

A similar project is commencing in Tasmania called the “Tasmanian VirtualCare@Tas Program shortly. Kathy Kirby Project Manager, Dept Health & Human Services Tasmania attended the Melbourne Launch of ViTCCU and had this to say:  Read more...

The Swan Hill District Hospital provides acute, community, primary and age care services to a population of up to 30,000 depending upon the specific services.  Read more...

Launches were held for the ViTCCU project in Melbourne and Bendigo this month. Read more...

Representatives from the participating hospitals, health services, and relevant consortium partners attended the inaugural meeting of the ViTCCU Clinical Working Party at the National Trauma Research Institute on 20 June, 2008.  Read more...

A number of marketing opportunities have been identified for the project encompassing local, regional and national media. Loretta Gibson from Bendigo Health will be the central point of co-ordination for all marketing for this project. Read more...

The Virtual Trauma and Critical Care Unit project will provide support for local regional doctors, in smaller towns, dealing with trauma or specialist cases, by linking them via video conference, with trauma and critical care specialists at Melbourne’s Alfred, Austin, St Vincent's and Royal Children’s hospitals.  Read more...

Project is on track to deliver all sites by end of November 2008. Some minor concerns have been raised with regard to technical integration of medical monitors and radiology images, however a number of options are being considered to either manage the issue or introduce workarounds.  Read more...