Monitoring long term conditions with Telehealth

Br J Community Nurs. 2009 Jun;14(6):246-8. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2009.14.6.42590.

Abstract

Matthew Marshall of Tunstall explains the role that telehealth is playing in supporting health and social care professionals and enabling them to deliver more integrated, flexible and person-centred care. He discusses the approach three PCTs have taken for more preventative, community based care and how their use of telehealth has transformed chronic disease and long term condition management, shifting the balance away from a reliance on hospitals and into the community setting.

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Community Health Nursing
  • Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation*
  • Patient-Centered Care / organization & administration*
  • Telemedicine*
  • United Kingdom