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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Simple Telehealth

"This website will help you to address your learning needs about Technology Enabled Care Services (TECs) whether you are a clinician, or commissioner or manager. Consider what competences and capabilities you or the teams you work with need."

Simple Telehealth (Digital Health SOT) 
NHS Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group
2014

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What does the future hold for the NHS

"The contributions gathered here address some of the most complex or controversial debates in healthcare – such as decommissioning, integration, engagement, and leadership." 

This collection from Birmingham University's Health Services Management Centre contains the following articles:

• Decommissioning and the leadership challenge in health care
• System leadership in a fragmented system
• Strengthening Communities to Deliver the Better Care Fund
• The role of leadership and collaboration in the development of a social impact measurement system for use in healthcare
• The NHS and Diversity: research on the real lives behind the differences
• Moving upstream: The case for prevention
• Telehealth and the NHS: are we asking the right questions?
• Learning lessons from other countries 
• A Health Workforce that’s fit for the Twenty-First Century
• Keep schtum or whistle: what makes some health and care managers resist corruptions to practices
• Nursing is hard emotional work - why is that ignored?
• Developing a culture of compassionate care: lost in translation
• Evaluating the future of healthcare: where does the truth lie?

What does the future hold for the NHS
Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
June 2014

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UK healthcare expertise collection

This is a collection of documents from Healthcare UK containing "information about the UK's different healthcare capabilities including case studies of successful overseas partnerships and projects with the UK"; including:

• Primary care: working in partnership
• Education and training in healthcare: working in partnership
• Infrastructure for health: working in partnership
• Digital health: working in partnership
• Health systems development: working in partnership
• Healthcare: public private partnerships

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Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice

"Public policies promoting the use of information and communication technologies in the field of medicine in general, and in communities of practice in particular, should go beyond the purely technological dimension and consider other professional and social determinants, as well as those of a contextual and organisational nature."

Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice
Á Díaz-Chao, J Torrent-Sellens, D Lacasta-Tintorer, F Saigí-Rubió
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2014; Jan–Mar

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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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Adoption of digital health between the US VHA and England’s NHS

"This second report builds on "Telehealth: what can the NHS learn from experience at the US Veterans Health Administration" reflecting on the impressive use of technology currently provided by the VHA, and drawing on the innovative progress that has been made in the NHS through their experience of telehealth."

Making connections A transatlantic exchange to support the adoption of digital health between the US VHA and England’s NHS
J Cruickshank, J Harding, J Paxman, C Morris
2020health
March 2013

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Yorkshire and the Humber Telehealth Hub

"The aim for the Hub was to support care closer to home and deliver services to 2,100 patients, leading to fewer unnecessary admissions to hospital, healthier outcomes and lifestyles, and cost savings."

Yorkshire and the Humber Telehealth Hub: 2020health Evaluation
J Cruickshank, J Paxman
2020 health.org
January 2013

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Impact of telehealth on use of hospital care and mortality

"Over the 12 months that they spent in the trial, patients allocated to receive the telehealth intervention had fewer emergency hospital admissions."

The impact of telehealth on use of hospital care and mortality
A Steventon, M Bardsley
Nuffield Trust
June 2012

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Economics of ehealth and mhealth

"As a first step to developing the investment case for mHealth, this article outlines some of the key economic and financial questions that need to be answered in developing in-country eHealth investments."

The economics of ehealth and mhealth
J Schweitzer, C Synowiec
Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, 17(sup1):73-81

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Telehealth - lessons to learn

"Development of an integrated patient record greatly facilitates collaboration between different clinicians involved in patient care, with telehealth data available to communitywide electronic health records."

Telehealth: What can the NHS learn from experience at the US Veterans Health Administration?
J Cruickshank, E Winpenny
2020health.org
January 2012

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Telehealth evidence database

The Telehealth evidence database is a free resource, published by The King's Fund. It is for anyone looking for information on telecare, telehealth and the management of long-term conditions.

Access the database here.