Healthcare Provider Consultation - Expert Medical Guidance

Healthcare provider consultation involves seeking advice, diagnosis, or treatment from medical professionals such as doctors, nurses, or specialists to address health concerns or receive medical care.
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Service
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Available through appointments with healthcare practitioners in clinics, hospitals, or virtually via telemedicine services.
Prepared by Shruti Sahoo, reviewed by Dr. Eugene Smith

Healthcare Provider Consultation FAQ


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What is a telehealth consultation?

What is telehealth? Telehealth is having a consultation with a healthcare provider by phone or video call. Many GPs, specialists, and other healthcare providers now offer a telehealth consultation when a physical examination isn’t necessary.

What is a clinical consultation?

The clinical consultation is when the diagnosis is made correctly or incorrectly. If an incorrect diagnosis is made, a good outcome can only arise by good luck eg if the clinician believes that the diagnosis is a urine infection but is actually pneumonia, by good luck the antibiotic might treat the pneumonia.

Can a telehealth consultation save time?

Occasionally, Australians living in rural and remote areas need to travel far to see their healthcare provider. A telehealth consultation can save time by enabling doctors to consult with their patient by phone or video call. Talk to your healthcare provider using your mobile or landline phone.

What are the guidelines for telehealth consultations?

The guidelines detail what the Board expects of doctors when they have telehealth consultations with patients. They cover practice before and during a consultation; follow-up and record keeping and international telehealth.

What is a doctor consultation?

A doctor consultation is a broad term meaning a meeting between a patient and a health practitioner to discuss the patient’s health. It can take place in various settings, such as a GP clinic, emergency department or hospital ward.

What is a primary healthcare consultation?

It can also have many purposes such as providing advice, education, treating a condition, managing medications or general support. Any individual with concerns about any aspect of their health should seek medical assistance via a doctor’s consultation. Primary healthcare is initial step in receiving non-urgent medical assistance.

How will public consultation support a broader adoption of Healthcare Identifiers?

Through public consultation we aim to identify and validate key potential changes to the HI Framework to support broader adoption of Healthcare Identifiers. This will inform a set of recommendations that will inform a Bill to be put to Parliament for consideration by mid-2024.

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