The ‘telehealth’ initiative will mean people with long term problems like diabetes and heart disease do not have to go to their local surgery or hospital for routine checks.
Instead, they will be able to take readings of health measures like blood pressure and blood glucose levels themselves at home, log them with doctors and nurses online, and converse with them via the web.
One hundred thousand people across the country are set to benefit from new health technologies, Jeremy Hunt said today as he set out his vision for improving the lives of people with long-term conditions.
Speaking at an Age UK conference, Jeremy Hunt kick started the roll out of telehealth as a way of giving people with long-term conditions control over their own care. This followed the launch of the NHS Mandate yesterday where he announced that significant progress will be made towards three million people being able to benefit from telehealth by 2017.
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The government has promised that three million people will benefit from telehealth systems. Telehealth and telecare services rely on devices which allow doctors to monitor patients from their homes.
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Speaking at an Age UK conference, he set out his vision for improving the lives of people with long-term conditions through the roll-out of telehealth.
It will enable them to use electronic information and technology to manage their health independently and have more control over their own care.
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