Digital Health & Care NI (DHCNI) and Big Motive embarked on a Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Discovery Project to explore the potential of leveraging technology in health and care delivery in Northern Ireland.
The project aimed to understand the opportunities and challenges to using TEC to improve care, streamline processes, and enhance overall health and well being outcomes.
What is Technology Enabled Care?
The use of technology (e.g. telecare, telehealth, telemedicine) to help manage health and sustain independence.
Enables remote exchange of information between a patient and a healthcare professional to assist in assessing or monitoring health status.
Enables a modern model of continuous, coordinated care centred on the individual.
The Process
The project has followed a sprint process. Sprints are short, time-boxed periods of focus on a particular area of interest. The sprint process was repeated for each of the five explorations,
- Hypertension
- Long Term Conditions
- Care Homes
- Hospital at Home
- Telecare
Adhering to agile principles including iterative development, flexibility to adapt to new information, and continuous collaboration with stakeholders to ensure alignment and relevance of the deliverables.
You can download a summary of the overall findings report here:
5 Individual Explorations
Next Steps
This discovery has provided a better understanding of TEC appetite, challenges, implementation requirements and opportunities for adoption. In the next steps of this work, DHCNI are seeking to address key challenges raised across this discovery through implementing the recommendations detailed in this report.
If you would like more information about this work please contact: Linda.McRandle@hscni.net or DHCNIContact@hscni.net
Technology Enabled Care Advisors in HSC Trusts
Page last updated: 5 December 2024