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  • Why ACOs Are Hot For Telehealth
    This ebook from American Well has strong resonances for the UK. Interest in telehealth continues to rise in U.S. healthcare organisations. The August 2014, Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) study on telemedicine adoption found a very favourable view of the U.S. telehealth market, and it’s predicted that in 2014 alone there will be 75 million e-visits in the U.S. and Canada. Healthcare systems know that clinical interactions don’t always need to be done in the same room and they are increasingly incorporating telehealth into their every day practices ...
  • What is Preventing Progress? Time to Move From Talk to Action on Reducing Preventable Illness
    This report by The Richmond Group of Charities highlights how in England tackling common risk factors such as smoking, inactivity, unhealthy diet and alcohol would drastically reduce the number of people affected by common diseases such as heart disease, cancer, lung disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma and stroke, while helping to prevent or delay the onset of conditions like dementia. It outlines nine key calls to action through which political leaders and key decision-makers can ensure disease prevention is placed at the top of the agenda ...
  • Commissioning and Contracting for Integrated Care
    This King’s Fund report describes how clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England are innovating with two broad models – the prime contract and alliance contract. It draws on experiences from five geographical areas, covering different population and disease groups (cancer, end-of-life care, musculoskeletal services, mental health rehabilitation, and older people’s services). It concludes by highlighting four lessons that CCGs, other commissioners and providers should keep in mind as they embark on new models of commissioning and contracting to support integrated care ...
  • Emerging Technologies and Industries Strategy 2014 to 2018
    This Innovate UK strategy covers totally new technologies and industries emerging from the UK science base, those with the potential to change our world. An emerging technology or industry is one that is only just emerging from the science base. It allows you to do something that was not possible before, or was only possible in theory. This strategy aims to identify these emerging technologies and industries to create national programmes in these fields. This will create opportunities for businesses to establish the skills and capability for the UK to be fastest to global markets ...
  • The NHS Five Year Forward View
    The NHS Five Year Forward View was published on 23 October 2014 and sets out a vision for the future of the NHS. It has been developed by the partner organisations that deliver and oversee health and care services including NHS England, Public Health England, Monitor, Health Education England, the Care Quality Commission and the NHS Trust Development Authority. Patient groups, clinicians and independent experts have also provided their advice to create a collective view of how the health service needs to change over the next five years if it is to close the widening gaps in the health of the population, quality of care and the funding of services. The purpose of the Five Year Forward View is to articulate why change is needed, what that change might look like and how we can achieve it ...