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The Sociotechnical Challenge of Integrating Telehealth and Telecare into Health and Social Care for the Elderly

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  • Ken Eason

    (The Bayswater Institute, London, UK)

  • Patrick Waterson

    (Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK)

  • Priya Davda

    (The Bayswater Institute, London, UK)

Abstract

Telehealth and telecare have been heralded as major mechanisms by which frail elderly people can continue to live at home but numerous pilot studies have not led to the adoption of these technologies as mainstream contributors to the health and social care of people in the community. This paper reviews why dissemination has proved difficult and concludes that one problem is that these technologies require considerable organisational changes if they are to be effective: successful implementation is not just a technical design issue but is a sociotechnical design challenge. The paper reviews the plans of 25 health communities in England to introduce integrated health and social care for the elderly. It concludes that these plans when implemented will produce organisational environments conducive to the mainstream deployment of telehealth and telecare. However, the plans focus on different kinds of integrated care and each makes different demands on telehealth and telecare. Progress on getting mainstream benefits from telehealth and telecare will therefore depend on building a number of different sociotechnical systems geared to different forms of integrated care and incorporating different forms of telehealth and telecare.

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  • Ken Eason & Patrick Waterson & Priya Davda, 2013. "The Sociotechnical Challenge of Integrating Telehealth and Telecare into Health and Social Care for the Elderly," International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), IGI Global, vol. 5(4), pages 14-26, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jskd00:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:14-26
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