Author Details Using technology to improve patient assessment and outcome evaluation Debra Dunstan1 PhD, Senior lecturer, ddunstan@une.edu.au Susan Tooth2 MPsych, Casual lecturer, suzie.tooth@gmail.com 1, 2 Psychology, UNE, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Correspondence: D Dunstan, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia  Author contribution: Debra A Dunstan: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts. Susan M Tooth: collected data. Citation: Dunstan DA, Tooth SM.  Using technology to improve patient assessment and outcome evaluation. Rural and Remote Health 12: 2048. (Online) 2012. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 31 December 2011 Revised: 11 April 2012 Accepted: 4 July 2012