Digital Healthcare: The Essential Guide - Couverture souple

Chambers, Ruth; Schmid, Marc; Birch-Jones, Jayne

 
9781910303061: Digital Healthcare: The Essential Guide

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About the book Different modes of digital healthcare have enormous potential to dramatically revolutionise the delivery of healthcare as we know it in health and social care settings. Technology enabled care greatly improves health outcomes, enhances end users experiences and saves money. We have to do it. But what exactly is it? And how, when and where do we implement it? What does it mean for you as a health or care professional or manager? We all need to understand the implications of digital healthcare and embrace it to make it happen. This book tells you how. It does it with a very practical approach incorporating case studies, checklists, FAQs and other tools, simply providing the insights and answers that you need. The authors and contributors all work on the frontline and between them have vast experience of making digital healthcare work. (This book) deserves to be found in the hands of everyone who works in the health and care services, because patients need to reap the benefits of digital healthcare. From the foreword by Julia Manning, CEO, 2020 Health. About the authors Ruth is an experienced GP, having worked for more than 30 years in different practices along with many lead roles in academia, the Royal College of General Practitioners, Department of Health, learning and development, and various clinical interests - all focused on disseminating best practice in healthcare. Having a master s in health service research, Jayne has spent much of her 32-year NHS career working as a nurse, health informatics professional and most recently as an independent programme manager. Jayne was instrumental in identifying the potential of simple telehealth (STH) as being able to realise significant invest to save benefits, establishing it as a programme of work and implementing it across the whole of Nottinghamshire s health and social care community, where it is now a mainstreamed operationalised service. Marc has had a career spanning over 20 years in media and communications. Having worked as a PR advisor to a member of the European Parliament and member of Parliament, he has developed a career at a senior level working across communications in local government and the NHS. He is the communications and digital lead for the Pennine Lancashire Health Transformation Board and a member of the Lancashire Digital Board. He is also seconded to the Lancashire Care Foundation Trust to support the digital health Lancashire programme with particular responsibility for connecting communities through digital means.

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