Telecare eNewsletter April 2016
Welcome to the April 2016 newsletter from the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network.
Our news service has been available since October 2005. Our Housing LIN and Telecare LIN membership database exceeds 40,000 people from around the world.
From January 2016 we are now back with a monthly Telecare LIN roundup as well as maintaining weekly headlines together with daily news via Twitter (follow @clarkmike and #TLINnews).
As in the past, we will be continuing to bring you an extensive curated coverage of digital health and technology enabled care references from the UK and around the world including telehealth, telecare, mobile health, telemedicine, ehealth, smart home technologies and Internet of Things. We will also be including more in the future on health informatics (including electronic health and care records), big data, artificial intelligence as well as health and care robotics.
What's in a name? - the Health and Social Care Information Centre is being rebranded as 'NHS Digital'. The National Information Board now has 33 work programmes to implement digital health and care. Wi-fi in hospitals and GP surgeries is to go ahead over the next 2-3 years. There is up to £2.4bn of additional funding for GP practices in the recently published 'Forward View' document - some of the money will support tech and IT. Raising awareness for technology enabled care in the UK remains a challenge - TSA were recently successful with a supplement in the Guardian newspaper to share some important messages. Manchester has kicked off its £6bn health and care devolution experiment. Local health and care organisations in England are preparing 85 digital roadmaps following publication of digital maturity scores - local authorities are strongly encouraged to complete self-assessments too. Scotland are updating their TEC strategy - look out for announcements during the Summer. There are plenty of new virtual reality devices coming onto the market and a London hospital recently broadcast an operation in VR - a global first. Look out for more chatbots popping up - will these new bots and integrated platforms replace apps? We've got over 800 links in our April news roundup - we hope you will find much of interest.
Upcoming events include TSA Summit in May, Financial Times Digital Health in June, the King's Fund Digital Health and Care Congress in July (new video available) as well as events from RSM over the coming weeks.