Telecare eNewsletter July 2016

Welcome to the July 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.

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Following Government changes, the Department of Health in England has announced a new ministerial team. There are also three new tech appointments at NHS England/NHS Improvement.

There are major pressures on health organisations to reduce their deficits - a Lords Committee is now looking at the long term sustainability of the NHS including the use of technology.

There is a major AHRQ review of telehealth.

The Summer Conference season has come to an end with the King's Fund Congress on digital health and care providing an opportunity to further take stock of the latest evidence and review progress on many of the UK initiatives - videos and presentations are now available.

The new conference season commences in the Autumn including the Health and Care Expo in Manchester and the International Technology Enabled Care Conference in Birmingham.

We've got around 500 links in our July news roundup - we hope you will find much of interest.