Telecare eNewsletter January 2016

Welcome to the January 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 #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.

The financial state of the health and social care in England continues to dominate the headlines. The Guardian is providing extensive coverage over the coming month. The deadline for digital roadmaps in England has been moved from April to June 2016. There has been plenty of recent technology coverage from CES 2016 in Las Vegas. There is a new report from Scripps Institute on a small randomised controlled trial linking various medical devices to a smartphone. Ali Parsa's Babylon Health has secured $25m of funding to develop an AI symptom checking app. The widely publicised Sugar Smart app aims to get people in the UK to reduce their sugar intake. There is a new patient management app from the UK. There is plenty of IoT news, predictions for 2016 as well as robots for all sorts of possible home-based tasks. A new book by Joe Kvedar 'Internet of Healthy Things' has been published and look out for AARP's 'Caregiving Innovation frontiers...leveraging technology to transform the future'.