Optimising digital solutions to improve access to comprehensive Primary Health Care services in remote Indigenous communities
Project Participants
Status: Ongoing
Media Appearances
- Pulse ITPublished 22nd August 2022DHCRC looking into virtual care deployments in remote NT communities
- University of SydneyPublished 29th August 2022Supporting primary health care in remote NT communities
- Aged Care ChannelPublished 15th September 2022Bolstering NT Health Services with more surgeons, digi-health solutions
- INSPIRE Magazine (Research Australia)Published 1st August 2025Building digital health technologies that work for remote communities
Opportunity
Design a best practice approach to how digital technologies can be configured and deployed in an integrated, culturally safe, and scalable manner that optimises comprehensive primary health care access in remote Indigenous communities.
Project objective
This project will develop and evaluate an approach to implement and integrate digital technologies that support comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) in remote Indigenous communities. It focuses on how technology can strengthen and support existing CPHC models as well as new and innovative approaches to delivering CPHC.
This is a phased project that will use an inclusive collaborative approach to optimise the development and deployment of digital solutions to address the issue of enhancing access to CPHC services in remote Indigenous communities. A realist evaluation approach will be utilised to evaluate the impact of these health system changes.
Publications
- Refereed Journal ArticlePublished 17th September 2025Optimizing Digital Solutions to Improve Access to Comprehensive Primary Health Care Services in Remote Indigenous Communities: Protocol for a Participatory Action Research Project
- Written Conference PaperPublished 16th September 2024“Healthcare in my happy place”: co-designing digital health in remote Indigenous communities
- Refereed Journal ArticlePublished 30th July 2025Telehealth for primary healthcare delivery in rural and remote contexts in high-income countries—a scoping review
- Correspondence ArticlePublished 2nd September 2024The rise of direct‐to‐consumer telemedicine services in Australia: implications for primary care and future research
- Correspondence ArticlePublished 1st February 2024Co-design of digital health technologies in Australian First Nations communities
Media Appearances
- Pulse ITPublished 22nd August 2022DHCRC looking into virtual care deployments in remote NT communities
- University of SydneyPublished 29th August 2022Supporting primary health care in remote NT communities
- Aged Care ChannelPublished 15th September 2022Bolstering NT Health Services with more surgeons, digi-health solutions
- INSPIRE Magazine (Research Australia)Published 1st August 2025Building digital health technologies that work for remote communities


