Telehealth Innovation Contract in Australia
The University of Southern Queensland health informatics research
group has contracted CAL2CAL Australia to develop a prototype allied technology for
health, emergency services and education in regional, rural and remote Australia.
The health informatics research group at the University of Southern
Queensland (USQ) is one of the leading groups in this field within Australia which
provides innovative healthcare technology solutions to improve the delivery and
quality of healthcare.
CAL2CAL Australia, based in Melbourne, is a subsidiary of CAL2CAL
Corporation, with global headquarters in California, USA. It provides integrated ICT
(Information & Communication Technologies) products, services and solutions for healthcare,
government and public services and social safety net programs. In addition to Australia, it has offices
and subsidiaries in Canada, UK and India and has worked extensively with universities, health agencies,
local, state and federal governments and multi-lateral agencies across the globe.
CAL2CAL will develop the prototype allied health application to be used in the domain of
health informatics. The technology will be used to improve emergency and disaster response and will have
a great impact on patient care and will reduce the cost of treatment.
“This is an exciting opportunity for USQ to collaborate with a new Victorian healthcare solutions provider,”
Prof. Raj Gururajan, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Business, USQ said.
“The outcomes of this project will assist clinicians by providing a cost-effective decision support
tool whilst allowing the maintenance of the highest quality professional healthcare, regardless of location,” Prof. Gururajan said.
USQ has contracted CAL2CAL Australia to develop the prototype by April 2010, to be ready for field trial internationally.
“This is a great opportunity for a new Victorian healthcare solutions provider to work with the University and to be part of
ground-breaking technology”, Chris Lynton-Moll, CEO, CAL2CAL Australia, said.
“Development of the prototype will be built extensively using published healthcare technology standards, and is an important
early step in the establishment of CAL2CAL Australia”, Gora Datta, CEO & Founder, CAL2CAL Corporation, said.
The project is the result of a major research grant. The project is managed by the Office of External Relations at USQ.
Contact details:
Chris Lynton-Moll
CEO, CAL2CAL Australia
T: 0412312416
E: chris@cal2cal.com.au
CAL2CAL
recently signed agreements/MOUs with Cardiff University, UK; University of New
South Wales Asia, Singapore; and Ballarat University, Australia to provide
healthcare IT products and services. This will enable these institutions to
further services and research in e-healthcare and will allow CAL2CAL entry into
the European and Asia-Pacific market. We believe there is a substantial
opportunity in these markets for our products and services; and our range of
products and services are well positioned to exploit these opportunities.
Gora Datta, CEO, CAL2CAL Corporation was invited by the Social
Safety Net programs of the World Bank to the 3rd International Conditional Cash
Transfers Conference in Istanbul, Turkey during June 26-30, 2006. At the
conference he presented “Managing and monitoring CCTs: Paper and pencil or
ICT”. The paper and conference proceedings are available at the following site.
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/icct06/welcome.asp Conditional Cash Transfer
(CCT) programs provide money to poor people conditional on them making
investments in their children's human capital such as school attendance or
regular use of preventive health care services. Such programs are relatively
new, but have been adopted already in a number of countries. Evaluation results
from the first generation of programs show that conditional cash transfer
programs are an effective means for promoting human capital accumulation among
poor households. There is clear evidence of success in increasing enrollment
rates, improving preventive health care and raising household consumption.
Despite this promising evidence there are concerns regarding constraints of the
supply of social services, tradeoffs between social assistance and human
capital formation goals, and the fit, effectiveness and appropriateness under
different country conditions--especially for low-income/low-capacity countries.
In the past, social transfer programs have been managed keeping
paper records. List of beneficiaries, records of payments and other
transactions have been exchanged and stored by the agencies involved in the
implementation of the programs. There are now many emerging Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) available which could be used to facilitate
the record keeping and exchange of information.
World Bank had appointed CAL2CAL in 2005 to research and publish
a white paper on using Information & Communication Technologies for
monitoring and review of CCT programs in low income countries. Following
publication of this white paper, CAL2CAL was invited to a presentation on the
applicability of ICT for administration, management and monitoring of CCT
programs to government representatives from member countries.
The white paper referenced above is available at the following
site:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOCIALPROTECTION/Resources/SP-Discussion-papers/Safety-Nets-DP/0522.pdf
The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 (21 December 2001)
endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in
two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003
and the second phase took place in Tunis, from 16 to 18 November 2005.
Gora Datta, CEO and Dr. Rini Verma, Chief Scientific Officer,
attended the second phase of WSIS in Tunis as invited representatives of the
International Chamber of Commerce.
The objective of the first phase was to develop and foster a
clear statement of political will and take concrete steps to establish the
foundations for an Information Society for all, reflecting all the different
interests at stake. The objective of the second phase was to put the Plan of
Action adopted in Geneva during the first phase, into motion as well as to find
solutions and reach agreements in the fields of Internet governance, financing
mechanisms, and follow-up and implementation of the Geneva and Tunis documents.
Nearly 50 Heads of state/government and Vice-Presidents and 197 Ministers, Vice
Ministers and Deputy Ministers from 174 countries as well as high-level
representatives from international organizations, private sector, and civil
society attended the Tunis Phase of WSIS and gave political support to the
Tunis Commitment and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society that were adopted
on 18 November 2005. More than 19,000 participants from 174 countries attended
the Summit and related events.
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