Telecare eNewsletter May 2016
Welcome to the May 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.
The NHS Hospital deficit in England is £2.45 billion 2015-2016 and CIPFA suggest that there could be a £10bn gap by 2020 as it struggles to make £22bn in planned efficiency savings. This month's headlines warn us of increasing delays in health and care - hospital discharges, hospital wait times, carer and mental health assessments - could technology support better processes? Hopefully the National Information Board has some of the answers. Remember the NIB's workstreams and six priorities? - There are now 33 programmes across ten domains - will this speed up transformation across health and social care and improve outcomes? Meanwhile in London a wide range of organisations got together for the first 'Joined Up Digital' event at the Centre for Ageing Better - a big opportunity to share and collaborate on digital programmes that could benefit real people. TSA members also got together in May for their annual summit to plan out their activities for technology enabled care with a focus on 'connected care, connected homes and connected communities'.
Upcoming events include Financial Times Digital Health in June, the King's Fund's Digital Health and Care Congress in July as well as a recently announced series of workshops on virtual reality in health and care.
We've got over 750 links in our May news roundup - we hope you will find much of interest.