Telehealth

Telehealth technology empowers people to monitor their vital signs from their own home and makes the data remotely available to their clinicians.

Telehealth is not intended to replace personal contact with care or health professionals; however it can enable more appropriate timing or interventions. Furthermore it promotes better self-management and healthier behaviours. More importantly, it also helps to improve the client's quality of life.

KCC has now been awarded a Whole Systems Demonstrator Programme to facilitate innovation in the way health and social care services are delivered and look at the effectiveness of supporting care pathways with Telehealth and Telecare.

It was also a winning entry in the national innovation competition organised by the Audit Commission and the IDeA.

Benefits

• The Kent project translates and adapts an existing approach from the US.
• Applying the concept to older people with longer-term conditions has required day-to-day learning about what works.
• By providing clinicians with access to monitoring information they are able to see trends in patients' conditions and make any changes to their care plans accordingly.

Find out more

Visit our Telecare web pages for more information.