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Telehealth and telecare
— BGS Best Practice Guide | | Author(s) | David Craig, Frank Miskelly |
| Corporate Author | British Geriatrics Society - BGS |
| Publisher | British Geriatrics Society - BGS, London, May 2010 |
| Pages | unnumbered |
| Source | Download from website (28/7/10): www.bgs.org.uk |
| Keywords | Health services ; Assistive technology ; Information technology ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | This first best practice guide on telecare and telehealth aims to acknowledge the growing role of electronic health support in the prevention and management of chronic illnesses relevant to older people. The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Telecare and Telehealth SIG wishes to actively engage members to share experiences and proposals and analyse evidence on this theme. The guide defines and distinguishes between telecare, telehealth and telemedicine. Telecare is "the remote or enhanced delivery of health and social services to people in their own home by means of telecommunications and computerised systems". Telehealth is "the use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services and access to medical and surgical information ... across distances." Telemedicine has been defined as "the use of telecommunications technology to provide, enhance, or expedite health care services, as by accessing off-site databases or transmitting diagnostic images for examination at another site." Health policy and models of service provision and the roles and responsibilities of the geriatrician in relation to telecare and telehealth are considered. The web version of this document alerts the user to other online references, for example . (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100728203 E |
| Classmark | L: M: UVB: 583 |
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