The Centre for e-Health aims to further the use of telemedicine

Telemedicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities...

 in Australia and Asia.

It is based at the Lions Eye Institute

Lions Eye Institute

The Lions Eye Institute in Perth, Western Australia, is the largest eye research institute in the southern hemisphere. It is a limited liability company, with not-for-profit and tax-exempt gift recipient status, overseen by a Board of Directors...

 in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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The Centre was launched in August 2005 by then-WA Premier Geoff Gallop

Geoff Gallop

Geoffrey Ian Gallop, AC is an Australian academic and former politician. He was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. He currently resides in Sydney.-Early life and education:...

. The WA Government contributed $2.25 million to the project.

Projects in the Centre include:

• Development of a portable digital imaging device that has teleophthalmology (retinal and anterior segment imaging), teledermatology, teleotolaryngology and teledentistry applications enabling remote diagnosis of disease and disorder.
• Online visual function testing of eye health.
• A stereo optic disc analyser, a software tool that analyses stereo images of the retina.

The Director of the Centre is Professor Kanagasingam Yogesan.