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How others are using Video Call

See how healthdirect Video Call is being used today by health organisations across Australia


Healthdirect Video call is currently being used by more than 450 organisations with over 11,000 clinics. Some organisations have just one clinic and other larger organisations have many clinics, one for each of their specialty areas. Each clinic has its own waiting area where patients arrive when they start a video call and clinicians can easily join the call. The platform is flexible, intuitive and easy for patients and clinicians to access. Video Call is a great option for patients living in remote and rural areas, or for those with limited mobility who cannot easily travel to see their doctor. Video telehealth is now embedded into the day to day workflows of many health organisations to help facilitate better health outcomes.

Please see below for examples of organisations who are using Video Call as well as links to articles and reports regarding our service and telehealth in general.

Examples of organisations using healthdirect Video Call

Ambulance Victoria and Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED).

 

The VVED service is available across Victoria 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for healthcare professionals from Ambulance Victoria (AV), hospital urgent care centres, residential aged care facilities and general practitioners (GPs) to refer patients. Patients can also self-register to use the service.

Click here to see how Ambulance Victoria links in with VVED to provide exceptional, accessible urgent care.
Victorian Organisations using Video Call - this page has links to health services using the Video Call service. Click here to access the information
Western Health has a telehealth page with information for patients, a link to the pre-call test and links to all clinic waiting areas. This makes it easy for patients to find the link for the clinic they need to attend for their appointment. 
Click here to access Western Health's telehealth page.
Albury Wodonga Health has a telehealth page with links to information for patients and to the clinic waiting areas. This makes it easy for patients to find the link for the clinic they need to attend for their appointment. 
Click here to access Albury Wodonga Health's telehealth page.
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Monash Children's Hospital

 

Click here to access Monash Children's Hospital's telehealth page.
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Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

 

Click here to access the telehealth page.

 

Click here to read patient telehealth testimonials.

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Royal Melbourne Hospital

 

Click here to access the telehealth page.

 
 

The Royal Children's Hospital

https://www.rch.org.au/telehealth

Click here to access the telehealth page.

Barwon Health
 
Click here to access the telehealth page.
Alfred Health

 

Click here to access Alfred health's telehealth page.
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Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN

Click here to access the telehealth page for the PHN.

Northeast Health Wangaratta

Click here to access the telehealth page

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How other organisations are using Video Call

Information regarding how other organisations are using healthdirect Video Call and the benefits it provides to patients and health service providers across Australia:

Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service (CAVUCS)

The Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service connects parents and carers with a virtual team of emergency doctors and paediatric nurses, via the healthdirect Video Call platform.

Click here to read more.
Monash Health  - 26th October, 2023 
In Telehealth Awareness Week, Monash Health reflects on the transformational change that video telehealth appointments have made to the patient experience. 
Click here to read the article on the Monash Health website.
SA Virtual Care Service 
The SA Virtual Care Service was set up in 2022 to provide more access to quality health care for patients in their home or region. Around 70% of SAVCS patients avoid admission to the ED and instead receive individualised care in place, or via more appropriate services in the community.
Click here to watch a Video outlining the service and its goals.

Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED)

VVED a public health service for non-life-threatening emergencies. Patients can access emergency care from anywhere in Victoria using Video Call, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Click here to access the VVED website

 

Click here to see how Ambulance Victoria links in with VVED to provide exceptional, accessible urgent care.

The Women's and Children's Hospital is South Australia provides a Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service (CAVUCS). This service connects parents with a virtual team of highly skilled emergency doctors and nurses who can assess and provide medical advice for children aged 6 months to 17 years. In February 2022 the service was the joint winner of the Premier's Excellence Award for Excellence in Service Delivery. Click here for more information regarding this service. 
Click here watch the video regarding the CAVUCS service winning the Premier's Excellence Award for Excellence in Service Delivery.

Western NSW Primary Health Network (WNSW PHN) has developed a comprehensive Video Call toolkit to provide assistance to users of the Video Call service

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Click here 

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SA Dental - embedding video telehealth using Video Call into patient pathways via Personify Care

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Diabetes telehealth for country WA using Healthdirect Video Call Click here to access the information
 
 

PHN information regarding Video Call

Primary Health Networks (PHNs) across Australia have health services in their network using healthdirect Video Call. The table below shows the information PHNs are providing to their health services, to enable them to access and use the Video Call service easily and effectively.

State/Territory PHN/Operator healthdirect Video Call information
ACT Australian Capital Territory/ 
Capital Health Network Limited
  • https://www.chnact.org.au/chn-annual-report-2019-20/digital-health/telehealth-by-healthdirect-video-call/ 
     
NSW Western NSW / Western Health Alliance Limited
  • https://www.wnswphn.org.au/coronavirus/telehealth_services
NSW Hunter New England and Central Coast/ HNECC Limited
  • https://hneccphn.imgix.net/assets/src/uploads/images/PHN-0024-Generic-Telehealth-Guide-V3-compressed.pdf
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NSW Northern Sydney / SNPHN Limited
  • https://sydneynorthhealthnetwork.org.au/programs/digital-health/telehealth/
NSW Murrumbidgee / Firsthealth Limited
  • https://mphn.org.au/digital-healthehealth#Teleh
NSW North Coast / Healthy North Coast Limited
  • https://hnc.org.au/healthdirect-video-call/
NSW South Western Sydney / South Western Sydney Primary Health Network Limited
  • https://www.swsphn.com.au/telehealth
NSW Central and Eastern Sydney / EIS Health Limited
  • https://www.cesphn.org.au/general-practice/practice-support-and-development/digital-health#telehealth
NSW Nepean Blue Mountains / Wentworth Healthcare Limited
  • Practice Support | Nepean Blue Mountains PHN (nbmphn.com.au)
QLD Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast / Sunshine Coast Health Network Limited
  • https://www.ourphn.org.au/digital-health-program-telehealth/
QLD Darling Downs and West Moreton / Darling Downs and West Moreton Primary Health Network Limited
  • https://www.ddwmphn.com.au/telehealth
SA Country SA / SA Rural Health Network Limited
  • https://www.countrysaphn.com.au/about-us/digital-health-2/telehealth/
VIC North Western Melbourne / Melbourne Primary Care Network Limited
  • https://nwmphn.org.au/current-tenders/healthdirect-video-call-exemplar-program/
  • https://nwmphn.org.au/current-tenders/free-healthdirect-video-call-licences-available-for-gps/ 
VIC Eastern Melbourne / Eastern Melbourne Healthcare Network Limited
  • https://www.emphn.org.au/news-events/news/healthdirect-video-call-october-25-update 
VIC Murray / Murray PHN Limited
  • https://murrayphn.org.au/focus-areas/digital-health/telehealth/ 
VIC Western Victoria / Western Victoria Primary Health Network Limited
  • https://westvicphn.com.au/health-professionals/health-topics/digital-health/telehealth/
VIC Gippsland / Gippsland Health Network Limited
  • https://gphn.org.au/what-we-do/integrating-the-health-system/digital-health/healthdirect-video-call/
WA Perth North /Country WA / Perth South / WA Primary Health Alliance
  • https://www.practiceassist.com.au/Coronavirus-COVID19/COVID-19-Telehealth-Information
 
 

Reports and articles featuring healthdirect Video Call

Reports and articles featuring healthdirect Video Call in medical and media publications are linked to in the table below.

23rd April, 2025

CSIRO research shows trust in virtual health services

Read about how the use of digital tools, such as the Healthdirect COVID Symptom Checker and healthdirect Video Call, facilitates seamless communication between patients, healthcare providers, and government agencies, ensuring timely interventions and reduced wait times.

Click here to read the article.

March 2025

Virtual technology supporting patients and addressing frustration in nurse-led clinics

Read about how the South Australian Virtual Care Service (SAVCS) provided an innovative solution for remote healthcare, as an alternative to patients being referred to a hospital or medical clinic outside their local community.

Click here to read the article.

5th December, 2024

Ambulance Victoria adds video-assisted triage for non-urgent callers

Ambulance Victoria has introduced video-assisted triage for its Secondary Triage team to allow nurses and paramedics to better assess and determine the best medical care for their needs.

Click here to read the article.

11 November, 2024

Connecting families with newborns in special care

The Women’s and Children’s services team use Video Call to help reduce separation anxiety for parents of babies admitted to the Special Care Nursery (SCN). Baby Stream, a secure Live streaming platform, harness existing technology to provide a live stream link of babies in the SCN.

Click here to read the article.
22 February, 2024 
NSW Health single digital front door initiative begins to bear fruit 
Pulse+IT article detailing the single digital front door initiative NSW Health has been building with Healthdirect Australia. This initiative includes the use of healthdirect Video Call for video telehealth consultations. 
 
Click here to read the article
12th October, 2023 
Virtual assessment for pregnancy concerns adds to SA’s child and adolescent services 
Pulse+IT article regarding South Australia’s Women’s and Children’s Health Network launching a 12-month pilot of a new service allowing women to receive an urgent assessment from an experienced midwife via video link. Healthdirect Video Call is being used to facilitate the telehealth assessment.
Click here to read the article
4th October, 2023 
Healthdirect adds live captioning to video call service 
Pulse+IT article regarding Healthdirect Australia has adding live captioning to its healthdirect Video Call service to assist hearing-impaired patients during telehealth appointments.
Click here to read the article
19th September, 2023 
VVED diverting patients from emergency departments 
The Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), operated by Northern Health, has provided more than 155,000 video consultations to patients since it launched in October 2020.
Click here to read the article.

11th July, 2023

NSW building single digital front door to its health services with Healthdirect Australia. This will further integrate virtual care as an effective, accessible option for healthcare delivery across inpatient, outpatient, ED, and primary care settings

Click here to read the article.
14th June, 2023 
Pulse+IT article regarding further funding for two of ints innovative virtual care services to continue to ease the strain on Emergency Departments. The services are the Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service (CAVUCS) and the adult SA Virtual Care Service (SAVCS).
Click here to read the article.

16th May, 2023

The Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) has facilitated more than 100,000 patient consultations since its inception two and a half years ago.

The service is now helping homeless people along with the public, aged care residents, ambulance patients, people with disability and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Click here to read the article.
15th May, 2023 
Melbourne’s Northern Health has expanded its innovative Medical Community Virtual Consult (MCVC) service to GPs statewide after a successful launch last year, which has seen a reduction in the need for in-person referrals to specialists.
Click here to read the article.
3rd May, 2023 
This article details how telemonitoring reduced avoidable admissions for older people at home in the STAAR-SA trial. This trial was carried out in the Riverland Mallee Coorong region of South Australia, focussing on preventing avoidable hospital admissions and emergency department presentations in elderly people living at home.
Click here to read the article.
28th April, 2023 
WA to combine virtual care pilots with statewide operations centre for WA virtual ED (WAVED).
Click here to read the article.
The SA Virtual Care Service (SAVCS) is improving access to healthcare across the state and responding to the needs of frontline workers by bringing emergency care to patients, that would normally only be available in an ED.  Click here to read the article and watch the video.
12th August, 2022 
The Medical Republic article regarding Northern Health's virtual RD model easing pressure on a busy healthcare system.
Click here to read the article.
19th July, 2022 
Pulse+IT article regarding Northern Health expanding its Virtual ED service to Nursing Homes and Covid Care pathways.
Click here to read the article
18th July, 2022 
Medical Republic article regarding MBS rebates for longer phone consults and video consultations.
Click here to read the article.
14th June, 2022 
AWS case study featuring healthdirect Video Call. This article discusses facilitating secure virtual consultations with integrated clinical and video tools.
Click here to read the case study
7th June, 2022 
Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) featured on Sunrise. This article and video explain how the service works, and the plans for future expansion.
Click here to access the article and video.
May 2022 
Newsletter article outlining the update of healthdirect Video call by GPs and jurisdictions.
Click here to access the newsletter
14th February, 2022 
The Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service (CAVUCS) at the Women's and Children's hospital in South Australia is the joint winner of the Premier’s Excellence Award for Excellence in Service Delivery. The team use healthdirect Video Call to work collaboratively with SA Ambulance Service, Priority Care Centres, COVIDKids and specialist services to ensure children and adolescents get timely access to the right care.

https://www.wch.sa.gov.au/news/cavucs-award-winner 
 

Click here to see the Healthdirect Australia Linkedin post regarding this announcement.

18th March, 2021 
Partyline article for rural, regional and remote communities regarding how Northern Territory psychologist, Zoe Collins, uses healthdirect Video Call to consult with her clients.
Click here to read the article
The Age article regarding Healthdirect's new Video Call platform Click here to read the article.
Royal Perth Hospital using Video Call to improve outcomes for chronic hepatitis C patients in WA prisons
Click here to read the article.

 

 
 

Healthdirect Australia Annual and Quarterly Reports

Healthdirect Australia annual reports feature healthdirect Video Call, as indicated below.

Quarterly Report Oct - Dec 2024, page 11
  • Healthdirect Australia Quarterly Report, Oct - Dec 2024

 

Annual Report 2023 - 2024, page 38
  • Healthdirect Australia Annual Report 2023-2024

 

Annual Report 2022 - 2023, page 22
  • Healthdirect Austraila Annual Report 2022-2023

 

Annual Report 2021-2022, pages 19 & 22
  • Healthdirect Australia Annual Report 2021-2022
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  • Healthdirect Australia Annual Report 2019-2020
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Annual Report 2017-2018, page 13
  • Healthdirect Australia Annual Report 2017-2018
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Annual Report 2016-2017, pages 29 & 30
  • Healthdirect Australia Annual Report 2016-2017
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Annual Report 2013-2014, page 23
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Social networking platform posts featuring healthdirect Video Call

18th March 2024 
LinkedIn post by Northern Health regarding the expansion of Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) to care for more than 1,000 people daily. VVED use Video Call to provide this valuable service.
Click here to see the LinkedIn post.
June 2023 
LinkedIn post by Healthdirect Australia regarding the rapid adoption of video-based health consultations during the pandemic, which was supported with the expanded provision of government-funded healthdirect Video Call.
Click here to see the LinkedIn post
April, 2022 
Linkedin post by Healthdirect Australia about the combining of two of our virtual health services - Video Call and the after hours GP helpline.  
Click here to see the post.
May, 2022 
Linkedin post by Healthdirect Australia announcing the recently achieved Essential 8 compliance (Maturity Level 2) in recognition of meeting the ACSC's security standards. Essential 8 is a set of security controls which provide the fundamental strategies required to ensure Healthdirect Australia has all the correct cyber security protocols in place.
Click here to see the post.
Central and Eastern Sydney PHN YouTube video interview with Dr Amandeep Hansra - Telehealth expert and GP. Click here to watch the video.

All Graduates Interpreting and Translating Service

YouTube video for All Graduates interpreters using healthdirect Video Call, with instructions to using the clinic link they receive to access the consultation.

Click here to watch the video.
The Royal Children’s Hospital Linkedin post - patient experience using telehealth to imporve health outcomes. Click here to watch the video.
 
 

Telehealth information, guides and processes

Digital Health, Victoria Department of Health 
Virtual Care standard and guide for Victorian public health services.
Click here to read the document.
Information regarding telehealth from the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA). Click here to access the information.
 
 

healthdirect Video Call involvement in research projects

NT health and Menzies School of health Research are leading a new collaborative Digital Health CRC project to support Indigenous communities and bring care closer to home. Healthdirect Australia will use the project’s early findings to optimise culturally safe and appropriate service workflows that can be implemented, particularly in video-based consultations through our Video Call service. Click here to read more.
Monash University researchers will lead a $2 million Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) project to enhance telehealth capabilities that aim to improve patient, clinician and caregiver experiences for mental health and palliative care services. The project will be led by Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology (IT). Affiliates include Monash Health, researchers from the University of Melbourne, industry partners, Healthdirect Australia and the Department of Health (Victoria). Click here to read more.
 
 

Video Call presentations

25th August, 2022 
Video Call presented a webinar with PHNs from around the country regarding RACF workflows and implementation. We are working with some PHNs already regarding using Video Call in RACFs in their network and welcome any PHNs that would like to do a pilot to contact us.
Click here to access the recording of the webinar - it is the first webinar recording near the top of the page.
2nd August, 2022 
Video Call conference paper presented at the 16th Rural Health Conference in Brisbane. The theme for the conference was Bridging social distance, rural health innovating & collaborating. This presentation is called Video Telehealth: Enabling the delivery of mental health care to rural communities.

Click here to access the presentation.

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