Telecare eNewsletter December 2015

Welcome to the December 2015 newsletter from the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network.

Over the last few months, we have been providing weekly headlines only since our Innovate UK funding ended in March 2015.

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 will be back with a monthly Telecare LIN roundup as well as maintaining weekly headlines together with daily news via Twitter (follow @clarkmike and #TLINenews).

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.

Our December 2015 edition is an opportunity to update our member databases and renew our schedules ahead of bringing you a monthly roundup in the third week of each month from January 2016.

This month's coverage includes winter pressures on health and care in the UK and new funding announcements including the spending review. There are new proposals and recommendations on digital Health and Care from England and Wales. There is coverage of the recent Technology enabled Care Conference and the dallas programme. The winning bids for the Long Term Care Revolution have been announced. There are 70 useful links from UK and around the world plus some new events for the start of 2016.