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Teaching ·20 May 2020

AOA Telehealth Webinar

Australian Orthopaedic Association telehealth webinar announcement
Australian Orthopaedic Association telehealth webinar announcement

An AOA webinar on telehealth

Looking forward to the Australian Orthopaedic Association webinar on telehealth tonight. The panel includes Simon Coffey and Lily Garcia, orthopaedic surgeons from Sydney and Perth, and Stephen Milgate of ASOS. 197 Australian orthopaedic surgeons registered to participate.

Australian Orthopaedic Association telehealth webinar announcement

What the session covers

  • The advantages of telehealth for surgeons and for their patients.
  • The protocols and techniques that can be implemented for conducting telehealth consultations.
  • Medical record-keeping.
  • The systems, policies and technologies that can support telehealth consultations.

About the Australian Orthopaedic Association

The Australian Orthopaedic Association is the professional body for orthopaedic surgeons in this country. Alongside its role in overseeing training and in maintaining the national joint replacement registry, it provides continuing professional development for surgeons already in practice. Webinars of this kind are part of that work: a panel of surgeons, together with people from outside clinical practice where the subject calls for it, working through a problem the membership is facing at the time. Sessions are commonly recorded so that members who cannot attend on the night can review them afterwards.

Context

This webinar was held in May 2020, when telehealth moved very quickly from a marginal activity to a routine one across Australian practice. The practical questions it addressed, around record-keeping, consent and what can reasonably be assessed without the patient in the room, were live ones at the time and have largely settled into standard practice since.

For a shoulder, there are limits to what a remote consultation can establish. History can be taken well remotely, and imaging can be reviewed, but the physical examination of a shoulder involves moving it and testing it against resistance, which generally needs to be done in person.

Where a remote consultation does work well is in going through results, reviewing imaging, discussing the plan for an operation, and following up afterwards when the main question is how rehabilitation is progressing. Individual results vary.

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