The 2021-22 financial year ends very soon!
The Vision: What we aspire to achieve in the future:
Access to better healthcare technology for everyone
Your support
This campaign is to support charitable better healthcare technology activities that progress to self-sustaining in the years to come.
Please consider becoming involved in our Foundation’s campaign. You can support by giving a tax-deductible donation and/or becoming involved in the ‘Campaign Fact Sheet’ initiatives.
To obtain maximum funding support from the community and corporate organisations, it requires our ACPSEM members to display a united strength of commitment in the Foundation’s activities. We need as many ACPSEM members as possible to subscribe.
By collectively investing and participating in our internationally owned brand name: Better Healthcare Technology, many benefits will flow from this for everyone.
To help you choose what level of investment and involvement you would like to give, please refer to our information:
‘Progress of ACPSEM Foundation Ltd since inception(2017)‘.
The information is important for you to know as an investor in this campaign. The information may be downloaded if you wish.
Making your donation:
To donate, please click on your support interest:
Your campaign investment would be very much appreciated.
For those who have already sent a donation this year, we greatly appreciate your on-going regular support and involvement.
Thank you and take care.
Yours sincerely,
Director, ACPSEM Foundation Ltd
Chair, Fundraising Marketing and Website Committee
Editor, Better Healthcare Technology website
14 June 2022
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Download ▶︎ Foundation Progress
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CAMPAIGN:
Building a stronger, more sustainable charitable organisation
for Better Healthcare Technology
Campaign Fact Sheet
AIM
The ACPSEM Foundation Limited (trading as Better Healthcare Technology Foundation) aims to support research and development initiatives in physics, engineering and associated sciences in medicine that maximise the potential of new or existing technology to provide higher quality, safe healthcare techniques and better outcomes for patients and their communities.
The Foundation has already developed a website, https://www.betterhealthcaretechnology.org with relevant medical technology information. Articles primarily contributed are by our ACPSEM Award winners and other invited experts in the field. for cancer patients in the one ‘Cancer Care Technology’ location.
ACPSEM FOUNDATION
(also known as BETTER HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION)
The ACPSEM Foundation Ltd (the Foundation) is a not-for-profit entity registered under the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) and trades as Better Healthcare Technology Foundation. The ACPSEM is the peak professional body representing the practice and services in healthcare physical science, biomedical engineering and radiopharmaceutical science in medicine. A large proportion of the ACPSEM professional expertise is provided as a technical and scientific support enabling services for cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and development. Their expertise is important in overseeing the technology used extensively for treating cancer patients.
REASON FOR PROJECT
The Foundation has completed a 5-year Phase I stage since its inception in 2017. It is now able to launch into Phase II to consolidate outcomes, implement worthy projects and to seek your support to make it possible in a reasonable timeframe.
The Foundation Board has approved the following projects for this campaign:
1. Cancer patient access to medical technology information – pilot project
Easier access to patient friendly technical and scientific information on cancer treatment would support patients and their family in making more informed decisions about the medical treatment options and would hopefully reduce their anxiety about deciding on the technology proposed for their treatment.
Lessons learnt from the pilot project would lead to projects being undertaken with patients and their support groups for other common cancers such as breast and lung cases. Rare cancer innovative technology cases would be added as they arise.
In addition to your fund support, the Foundation is actively searching for philanthropic support for this project.
2. Research and Development: Topical Lecture Series
For research and development: the aim is to provide a “bigger picture” that widens the health professional’s horizons on what is happening in innovative science and technology.
WHAT WE PLAN TO DO
For patients information access: The Foundation has already developed a website, https://www.betterhealthcaretechnology.org with relevant medical technology information for cancer patients in the one ‘Cancer Care Technology’ location. The articles provide an unbiased viewpoint written by experts in the field of healthcare technology.
The Foundation is now looking to working collaboratively with patient support groups to better understand patient technical information needs and to make the website information more accessible to patients, by building on existing patient information initiatives.
For research and development: Members of the Foundation’s Research and Development Committee have established a quarterly Topical Lecture Series. It’s to help support mainstream medical physicists and biomedical engineers, in R&D activities, to collaborate with other disciplines.
All meetings are held by Zoom of 1 hr duration including Q&A. The recorded webinars are available on the Better Healthcare Technology website for on-demand viewing at any future time.
WHAT WE PLAN TO ACHIEVE
Prostate cancer patients and their families can:
- have more comprehensive, readily accessible information about the health technology used for their proposed treatment in a manner they can understand;
- make more informed decisions about the medical treatment options;
- reduce their anxiety about the use of the equipment and method proposed for the treatment.
Research and Development
Through the use of the Better Healthcare Technology website, ACPSEM Foundation intends to offer pilot research grants from charitable income.
The four topical lectures per year are intended to have broad appeal that may, in particular, help foster cross-disciplinary collaborations.
The Foundation is seeking to obtain sufficient fund support to be able to offer pilot research grants from its charitable income. The grant would be available to multidisciplinary teams, thereby further encouraging the broadening of college member involvement to a wider scope.
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Operational Plan Webinar:
what, why and who will benefit
The operational plan is very detailed!
You can read the abridged details by clicking here ► ACPSEM Foundation Ltd, trading as Better Healthcare Technology Foundation.
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Progress of ACPSEM Foundation Ltd since inception(2017)
Phase I Status (2017 – 2022)
Achievements and needs
1. Governance, fundraising, marketing and website
What we achieved and what we need establish:
• Establshed administrative governance support to satisfy ACNC charitable registration; ✓ – complete
• A regular solid income stream from a range of sources (i.e. make strategic plan income versus expenditure and create an asset fund for reserves and interest bearing); ✕ – must be clearly established and based on Phase II support obtained.
• Funds for knowledge exchange activities (meetings, workshops and website); ? – continuously ongoing
• A stronger member support (the goal: 80% of ACPSEM membership and any other non-member health professionals) ✕ – much needed
Recommendation 1
To progress to a reasonably sustainable Phase II over the next 3 years, the Foundation is seeking (i) substantial financial support from members and other income streams and (ii) the injection of new blood into the Board and various committees.
Ongoing solid support in the form of donations, committee participation, fund raising teams and website editing, management and administrative tasks will be vital for the road to Foundation sustainability.
2. Asia Pacific: Training and Education Assignments
With the support of ACPSEM and many passionate volunteer medical physicists, the Asia Pacific Special Interest Group has successfully supported hospital staff in many Asia Pacific countries for over 13 years.
Despite limitations set by COVID-19, APSIG has continued remote and website contact for ongoing work in Cambodia, Mongolia and Papua-New Guinea.
3. The Better Healthcare Technology Website
The betterhealthcaretechnology.org website is a key asset. It provides public access to view:
- Governance (privacy policy, GDPR requirements, viewer and author conditions, copyright);
- Main menu sections for Community, Health Professionals and Asia Pacific;
- ACPSEM Award winners and invited expert health professions have made substantial contributions (54 suitable level 1 and 2 for community use and 29 level 1 and 2 for health professionals – (Basic: level 1, Mid complexity: Level 2 and Advanced: Level3)
Note: Donor personal details and funds donated are automatically recorded, managed but retained strictly confidential in the system.
What the website has achieved
During the last 3 years the Foundation has built a successful website (its value in-kind = $350,000). The website is designed to:
- conform to the Foundation’s special purpose, mission and vision: and
- facilitate all the knowledge exchange, research and development activities of our projects.
The annual website statistics show an average of 6,000 visits who view 14,000 pages on the site and come from over 100 different countries.
For user countries, the most common are Australia and New Zealand (60 – 75%), USA (22%), UK (4.7%), India (3%) and other countries (14%).
The statistic for % growth in use for other countries during 2019 – 2022 have increased significantly: USA (+72%)
UK (+427%)
India (+300%) and
All other countries (149%)
Recommendation 2
The Foundation needs extra website support for:
- appoint co-editors to
- recruit authors of expert reading material (ranging across many different medical technology topics);
- edit and proof- read the articles before acceptance;
- proof-read the website pages prior to publishing.
- recruit a range of stakeholders to the website team to:
- ensure the website adequately covers the interests of all stakeholders;
- introduce new ideas and marketing initiatives;
- monitor the overall standard of website function and presentation style.
- appoint a back-up website team for:
- WordPress management and problem solving issues;
- Search engine optimisation;
- preparation
Health professional support (minimal cost): The recruiting of editors and the website teams could mostly be ACPSEM member volunteers willing to give and learn from the work it entails.
Personnel for Web software administration: Requires a suitable strategic plan to control costs incurred ($20,000 – $30,000 per annum?)
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