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Telehealth and remote personal care and monitoring has huge potential to help people better manage their long term conditions and other conditions. The government has set ambitious targets to get three million people supported through telehealth over the next few years. What are the challenges and how can they be overcome? What are the benefits? What works and what doesn’t?

13 January 2012

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Les Fawcett

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111 and Care Homes

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The best chance I can see of this succeding is to tie it into the 111 deployment. It already provides a 24/7 monitoring service in effect, so this wouldn't need to be setup as a seperate entity.

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Les Fawcett Reduce not remove :) Thinking more for reducing the workload for the nursing staff and for better lia...

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3millionlives not justified

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The first WSD paper published in the BMJ indicates that national roll-out of telehealth is not warranted - reactions? Will this have an impact or will trusts still invest in telehealth because of the Government campaign?

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Mike@tech Back to the TeleFuture Pt 2 The year is 2006. Telecare is being rolled out nationally under the DH's ...

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Would a High Street presence encourage Telehealth take up?

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I would like people's opinions on this because I believe this is the way forward. I am very naive when it comes to business so any and all thoughts will really help me sculpt my thoughts on this.

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Mike@tech Yes but but Consumer led revolution. Show them what they can have and they will demand it. Some will ...

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Might be worth looking at

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http://bluejeans.com/video-conferencing. If it can link everything together as it says, it will be a great way forward to maximise all those desktop conf units that are out there.

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Mike@tech Looks good but... I think I'm the but man. NHS, Gov, Local Gov are all scared of this. Especially sc...

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King's Fund event

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While the WSD peer reviewed papers were yet to emerge before the King's Fund event last week, some interesting tid bits of information from the trials were revealed.

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It all starts with the TV

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The TV is Old People's window on the world. They are the ones with the most chronic conditions. A device atop their TV can cut down on the number of expensive out-patient visits.

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Mike@tech I totally agree but in the real world.... of silo budgets, back to what I keep banging on about. Fina...

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111 and Care Homes

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