eHealth
With the care and health sectors pushed for resources as it is, people are looking to technology of the future to provide answers. WellTogether is a new IT solution that provides seamless remote interactions between patients, families and care workers, paving the way for the next step in healthcare.
need for controlled self-monitoring that doesn’t leave patients feeling disconnected or abandoned. New approaches in this field need to be
accepted not only by the care workers that will rely on them for their job, but also the older individuals who aren’t ‘digital natives’, who need to feel totally comfortable with any system put in place. Efforts
to create systems in which, for
instance, people can monitor their own blood pressure have been made, but the results have all too often been unwieldy and expensive. “There have been a lot of failed pilots in the care-at-home sector,” says Gus Desbarats, project coordinator. “The potential to improve the quality of life and reduce the care cost of patients is there, but as yet nobody has harnessed the technology in the right way to encourage new behaviours.”
Seamless Connected Care
The ageing population is no small problem. With forecasts predicting a huge increase in the number of people over 65 in Europe over the next two decades, the proportion of people who require some level of care is consequently rising. With the current systems in place, we are heading towards a critical point at which
there simply won’t be enough resources, personnel or space to provide the quality of service that people have come to expect. Technology
that facilitates remote
healthcare is one solution to this conundrum. There is a need for people to be able to care for each other without having to be in the same room, as well as a
Introducing a New Approach WellTogether is a new service support solution designed to enable the next generation of higher quality connected care
that will be needed to accelerate
adoption and convergence in telecare and teleheath. The platform consists of a range of care portals, each carefully tailored to the individual or group using it. The portals communicate smartly and securely with each other and share common access to information and services held securely on the internet according to a user selected hosting strategy. This includes libraries of approved tests and trusted services. “The product is like a secure social network for older people and the care
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