Several sites around Australia are about to trial a new initiative to improve communication between paramedics and hospital-based neurological teams with a locally developed digital technology platform called Zeus to improve stroke care.

The Zeus telehealth platform is able to transmit brain scans from the scene of a stroke to receiving hospitals or on-call neurologists using a smartphone app through a cloud network, as well as video conferencing between the paramedic and off-site neurologist as they make treatment and transport decisions.