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Applications of E-health Technologies
• Self-care advice and routine transactions
• Self-management of long-term conditions
• Enabling people to remain at home
Implementation Challenges
• Policy support for e-health technologies
• Availability of relevant technologies
• Evidence of beneficial effects
• Patients willing to use them
• Clinicians willing to use them
Internet Activities by Age Group, UK 2013
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Reading news Social networking Travel services Internet banking Health information
Source: Office of National Statistics
16-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
Access to Primary Care
• 25% of GP patients reported problems booking appointments by phone
• Only 6% booked appointments online
• Only 10% ordered prescriptions online
• Only 0.5% accessed their medical record online
• 12% of GP consultations carried out by phone
• 10% of those who cannot get a convenient GP appointment go to A&E departments
Access to Medical Records
• % general practices offering record access in 2014 = 32%
• % general practices offering record access in 2015 = 97%
• Policy • Availability • Evidence • Patients • Clinicians
Technologies for Personalised Care Planning
• Policy
• Availability
• Evidence
• Patients
• Clinicians
Technology Gaps
• Involving users in design, testing and implementation
• Telephone consultation systems
• Patient decision aids incorporated into EMRs
• IT systems to record patients’ self-management goals
• Self-management support
Evidence gaps
• Measuring outcomes that matter
• Effects of health information
• Multi-channel access to primary care – impact on demand
• Record access – patient use and impact
• Feedback for quality improvement
• Implementation of shared decision making
• Effects of personalised care planning
• Effects of health coaching
• Effects of telehealth
Promoting Use by Clinicians
• Signposting health information to patients
• Supporting multi-channel access to primary care
• Patient access to medical records
• Responding to patient feedback
• Patient decision aids
• Personalised care planning
• Health coaching
• Telehealth
• Support for innovation