Technology Enabled Care Services: Resource for Commissioners

"The Technology Enabled Care Services Resource for Commissioners has been developed by NHS commissioners to identify practical tools that can help maximise the value of technology enabled care services for patients, carers, commissioners and the whole health economy"

Technology Enabled Care Services: Resource for Commissioners
NHS Commissioning Assembly
January 2015

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Patient safety risks associated with telecare

"There is a need to better identify and describe patient safety risks related to telecare services to improve understandings of how to avoid and minimize potential harm to patients. This process can be aided by reframing known telecare implementation challenges and user experiences of telecare with the help of a human factors systems approach to patient safety."

Patient safety risks associated with telecare: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature
V Guise, J Anderson, S Wiig
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:588  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0588-z

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Telehealth and telecare

"Increased use of technology such as telehealth and telecare may help to improve quality of care and reduce costs. This note describes current UK telehealth and telecare initiatives and the role they may play in delivering future care."

Telehealth and telecare - POST Note
P Border
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
February 2014

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Unit costs of health and social care 2013

"With increased demand for health and social care expected, health and local authorities are faced with more pressure than ever to keep a tight rein on expenditure, so information on the costs of services continues to be an important contribution to accurate planning and commissioning."

Unit costs of health and social care 2013 
L Curtis
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent

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