Telecare eNewsletter June 2013
Welcome to the June 2013 newsletter from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Knowledge Transfer Network and the Telecare Learning and Improvement Network. We are grateful to the HealthTech & Medicines KTN and the TSB's Assisted Living Innovation Platform for providing newsletter funding for another year enabling us to continue to provide the most comprehensive newsletter available serving the telecare, telehealth, mobile health, digital health and assisted living communities.
Our free monthly newsletter is distributed to 48,000 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) or by following Mike Clark on Twitter (@clarkmike). With over 800 news and events links over the last month, we hope that you find this newsletter useful.
This month we look forwards to the King's Fund International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare in early July with the prospects of more evaluation findings from the Whole System Demonstrator Programme. We have news from the ALIP and dallas programmes as well as reports from a recent RSM conference and London Telecare Marketplace. Mike Clark from TelecareLIN looks at progress on telehealth. As the NHS and social care face unprecedented pressures for the foreseeable future, there are reviews into regulatory arrangements, A&E, services for older people and yet more policy announcements from Department of Health and NHS England in efforts to transform health and care services. Scotland has a new Bill to promote service integration whilst England is looking for pioneer sites across health and care (to be announced in September). If you are a GP and interested in the enhanced service payment for remote care monitoring, the deadline is 30 June. The newsletter picks up all the key policy news and guidance. The links section (over 800 this month) is now available in a separate supplement rather than in the main newsletter (pdf, doc).
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 on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available.