Telecare eNewsletter January 2013

Welcome to the January 2013 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network. Our free monthly newsletter is distributed to 46,000 subscribers in the UK and worldwide via e-mail and archived at www.telecarelin.org.uk. You can also find highlights on Prezi (monthly) or Rebelmouse (daily). We hope that you find this newsletter useful. With over 1200 news and events links over the last month, it is the most comprehensive newsletter available serving the telecare, telehealth, mobile health, digital health and assisted living communities.

This month there is news of a new telehealth and telecare strategy from Scotland and aspirations of a paperless NHS from English Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. There are new grant announcements as well as adult social care and public health funding programmes for local authorities. 101 clinical commissioning groups have now been authorised and there are a number of new publications from the NHS Commissioning Board ahead of the April NHS reforms commencement in England. There are a whole range of predictions about telehealth and mhealth for 2013 including some links to the recent Consumer Electronics Show which featured digital health. Don't forget to book tickets for 5-6 March in Liverpool for the ALIP Showcase Conference organised by the HealthTech and Medicines KTN or for the Birmingham, Bristol or York seminars based on the recent assisted living capabilities regional reports.

The links section is now available in a separate supplement rather than in the main newsletter (doc, pdf). A selection from this month's listing is covered in the newsletter.

The newsletter contains a list of KTN/ALIP activities, conferences and workshops from the UK and Europe over the coming weeks as well as news from the UK and around the world. For weekly news, updates and information, you can register with the Technology Strategy Board, ALIP group and the DALLAS sub-group. You can follow the dallas programme on Twitter at @dallas_connect. 3 Million Lives is now on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available (you do not need to register on Twitter and it is accessible to organisations not able to connect directly to social media).