Health Monitoring at Home
'Patient Voices' Case Studies
'Patient Voices' is a private initiative that seeks to empower patients across the UK by capturing and publicising their stories.
The site offers a number of case studies relevant to telecare and telehealth in Scotland which are below.
NHS Lothian Telehealth Stories
'Breathless'
'My Pod'
Medication Management
Falkirk Council and NHS Forth Valley have been working together to research and review the range of devices that are currently available to support people at home to manage their medication more effectively.
The document below identifies progress so far.
Medication Reminder Equipment and Services [540Kb]
Review of Telephone and Telemonitoring Programmes
This study was conducted by teams in Australia, Canada, and Britain and reviewed the research on telephone and telemonitoring interventions for chronic heart failure patients in order to determine the efficacy of these health monitoring methods.
Review of Telephone and Telemonitoring Programmes [2Mb]
Telemetry-Supported Care for COPD
Two reports have been published on telemetry-supported care for COPD in the Lothian Region. Both are available below.
Reconfiguring Care with Home Monitoring [2Mb]
Telemetry-Supported Care for COPD [93Kb]
The Autumn Telescot newsletter provides a further update on Lothian's COPD trial and can be accessed by clicking here.
Clinical Standards for COPD March 2010
NHS Quality Improvement are pleased to announce that the clinical standards for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Services have been finalised. The finalisation of these standards comes following extensive multi-professional and public input. You can download a copy here.
COPD Standards March 2010 [443Kb]
COPD Guidance March 2010 [62Kb]
COPD Evaluation Tool March 2010 [113Kb]
Demonstrators of Home-Based Telemonitoring to Support Self-Care in Long Term Conditions
Three health and social care partnerships - Lanarkshire, Lothian and Argyll & Bute - have been funded through the programme to implement projects aimed at supporting people with long-term conditions to manage their symptoms and disease more effectively at home. The initial focus for all three projects is COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), but with plans to expand to support people with other conditions and within other home-based settings (sheltered housing, for example).
Argyll and Bute published the following evaluation of their findings in August 2010.
Argyll and Bute Telehealth Final Report [1Mb]
Attached is a Qualitative Review from the Lothian Project.
Qualitative Review [2Mb]
Telehealthcare Learning Forum
There have been three events of the Telehealthcare Learning Forum. Material from these events are available below.
March 2010
Learning Forums Review [99Kb]
COPD Telehealth Project [682Kb]
NHS Lothian Telehealth Event [2Mb]
NHS Telehealth Event [238Kb]
NHS Highland - Argyll [5Mb]
Renfrewshire Telehealth Pilot November 2008-July 2009
A Report on the Renfrewshire Telehealth Pilot Project which focused on using telehealthcare technologies to support long term conditions management, particularly COPD.
Renfrewshire Telehealth Pilot Evaluation [165Kb]
