Telecare eNewsletter May 2013

Welcome to the May 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). With over 1300 news and events links over the last month, we hope that you find this newsletter useful.

Over the last month we have seen the publication of the Care Bill in England along with plans to integrate health and social care services over the next five years. These are in addition to the NHS Mandate's extensive programme of NHS changes through till March 2015. Pressures continue on health and care services. These will all have an impact on telecare, telehealth and digital health implementation. Meanwhile, Scotland is just getting on with their programme and we have a report from the recent Holyrood Connect Conference. We still have a range of different evaluation findings from telehealth, telemedicine and mHealth although some areas such as telestroke and teleradiology are starting to scale. We can expect further reports on telecare from the Whole System Demonstrator Programme at the King's Fund Congress in July 2013 - in the meantime, Professor Stanton Newman's views on the current telehealth position is included in this latest newsletter.

The links section is now available in a separate supplement rather than in the main newsletter (pdf, doc).

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 on Twitter at @3MillLives and also at LinkedIn. If you would like daily information on #telecare and #telehealth, then a Twitter stream is available.