[EQ] How can telehealth help in the provision of integrated care?

How can telehealth help in the provision of integrated care?

Karl A. Stroetmann, Lutz Kubitschke, Simon Robinson, Veli Stroetmann, Kevin Cullen, David McDaid

Policy Brief 13 - Health Systems and Policy Analysis

World Health Organization 2010 and World Health Organization
on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 2010

Available online PDF [39p.] at: http://bit.ly/a7xW7T

“…..The quest for more integrated care is not itself new, but new opportunities for effective realisation have emerged quite recently. In particular, the appropriate application of advanced ICT can make a major contribution towards achieving this goal.

Telehealth, the provision of care at a distance, is certain to be a key component in future ICT infrastructure for integrated care. It has already raised high hopes among policy makers with regard to its potential for delivering solutions for  growing capacity problems. For integrated care, today's segregated telehealth applications still require linking into more comprehensive eHealth strategies, in which clinical pathways and service delivery processes are fully coordinated and patient data safely shared.

Although few instances of routine application have yet emerged in Europe or elsewhere – in contrast with an enormous breadth of research activities – an increasingly solid evidence base is emerging indicating that telehealth can be used effectively to help support better integrated care, in particular for those with long-term chronic conditions….”

Content:

Key messages

Executive summary

Policy brief

Health policy context and current use of telehealth

What do we know about the benefits and effectiveness of telehealth?

Policy options to help foster use of  telehealth as a support to integrated care systems

Identifying alternative ways of  bringing about change

Summary and outlook

References

 

 

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