CDM-Net: A Broadband Health Network for Transforming Chronic Disease Management

Funding recipient

Precedence Health Care Pty Ltd

Project partners

The Victorian Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Victorian Department of Human Services, Multimedia Victoria , CSIRO e-Health Research Centre, IBM, Intel, Cisco Systems, Global Health, Monash, Deakin and Victoria Universities, Barwon Health, Diabetes Australia (Victoria) and the GP Association of Geelong.

Project achievements

This project has transformed the management of chronic diseases, with a particular focus on diabetes, by creating a broadband-enabled health services network to monitor and support patient care management to improve health outcomes providing social and economic benefits.

It has supported the rollout of chronic disease management applications for regional and rural Australia and laid the foundation for an industry cluster to develop health software products with export potential. The project has established a network, called CDM-Net, connecting people with Type 2 diabetes in the Barwon South Western Region of Victoria with their general practitioner, health service and diabetes nurse educators to improve compliance with best practice management of their condition. This system is now being rolled out more widely across Australia.

It also helped to drive participation and the use of broadband networks by providing a range of high-value broadband-based services to a wide range of users—including people with chronic disease, health care providers, and selected other stakeholders in health care.