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Building an evidence base for successful telecare implementation: updated report of the Evidence Working Group of the Telecare Policy Collaborative
- Authors:
- BARLOW James, (chair)
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership. Health and Social Care Change Agent Team
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The research literature on telecare is very wide and there are hundreds of papers in medical, engineering and informatics journals. Numerous trials of specific telecare technologies and services are being reported from across the world. Some focus on particular applications of telecare technology, for example aimed at people with hypertension or diabetes. Others report on more generalised applications for older people such as home safety and security. There is also a growing use of information and communication technology to provide advice, guidance and support for people with particular care needs by creating interactive web-based communities or through services like NHS Direct Online. Together, this represents an evidence base for both the impact of telecare and the factors which influence successful project implementation. How can this evidence base help to support decisions about when and where to invest resources in telecare services? And how do we ensure that future telecare trials and new mainstream services improve the current evidence base? These questions partly relate to the quality and type of evidence for innovative services and practices that are acceptable to different stakeholders in care provision, from the individual recipients of these services and practices and their families to health and social care professionals. They also relate to the procedures for designing and conducting research on new telecare services.