Operational Health : Conversations About Emergency, Disaster And Routine Healthcare Management.

More info at www.operationalhealth.com The Australasian Telehealth Society defines telehealth as "enabling health care services and related processes delivered over distance, using information and communication technologies*. While the Australian Department of Health uses the International Organisation for Standardisation definition: ‘use of telecommunication techniques for the purpose of providing telemedicine, medical education, and health education over a distance”. It is against the backdrop of e-health and electronic patient care records that Craig speaks with Dr Laurie Wilson, formally of the CSIRO and University of Western Sydney. Dr Wilson and I explore what telehealth actually is, the growth and development of Telehealth (telemedicine) in Australia and how his participatory design approach was used in a landmark virtual critical care telehealth project About my guest: Laurie Wilson received the PhD degree in Cosmic Ray Physics from the University of Sydney in 1973, and after wor