Private Sector Involvement with Scottish Centre for Telehealth Iain Hunter General Manager, SCT

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Private Sector InvolvementwithScottish Centre
for Telehealth Iain HunterGeneral Manager,
SCT
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Agenda

• SCT and existing eHealth structures in NHS
  Scotland
• Activities in other regions/agencies
• Future Telehealth projects in Scotland?
• Why is the private sector important?
• Whats in it for the private sector?
• How do we jointly move forward?

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SCT existing eHealth structures

• Telehealth is a core strand within Delivering for
  Healths eHealth strategy
• SCT Executive Board Senior SE involvement
• Reference Group Broad range of stakeholders
• This is not stand alone activity!!

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SCT existing eHealth structures

• SCT Roles -
• Provide advice and guidance to NHS organisations
• Health Boards
• National structures
• Liaise with key partner organisations
• Joint Improvement Team for Telecare

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SCT existing eHealth structures

• SCT Roles (cont) -
• Work with suppliers to better understand
• Technology
• Service options
• Whats over the horizon
• Monitor developments in Telehealth across
  Scotland and in other countries
• Provide consistency with the Scottish eHealth
  strategy

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Telehealth in other regions/agencies

• Scotland - Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum
  (STAF) funded health developments to solve
  specific clinical problems
• Wales - Fully provisioned infrastructure in place
  for Telehealth
• England Telemedicine and Telehealth are
  positioned as last set of services to be
  implemented in Connecting for Health

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Telehealth in other regions/agencies

• Denmark/Scandinavia - Focus on Community wide
  networks of care
• North America
• Support for Chronic Disease Management
• Telemedicine in prisons
• Defence forces telemedicine deployments
• Malaysia
• Early success not followed through

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Future Telehealth projects in Scotland

• The current picture
• Health Boards have implemented range of projects
• small to gt1m
• Outstanding issue - integration of Telehealth
  within broader eHealth agenda
• Service redesign
• re-engagement with clinicians

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Future Telehealth projects in Scotland

• 4 major strands of Kerr report
• Unscheduled care
• Care in remote and rural communities
• Education
• Management of long term conditions
• Other opportunities arising from Needs Analysis
• Paediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Networked medical imaging (interface to PACS/RIS)

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Future Telehealth projects in Scotland

• Telehealth has potential to offer -
• Opportunities to transform healthcare
• Means to overcome organisational boundaries
• Easier means of clinical engagement
• Capitalise on Scottish strengths
• Managed clinical networks
• SIGN
• ECCI projects

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Why is the Private Sector important?

• Delivering for Health provides Vision
• Potential usage of Telehealth solutions is high
• Telehealth is in its infancy in Scotland
• Great potential for innovation
• Creativity is required
• SCT does not have all the answers!

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What do we seek from the Private Sector?

• Horizon scanning - Emerging standards and
  integration approaches
• Shared knowledge the art of the possible
• Openness what has worked, what has failed
• New technologies
• Emerging technologies and how they might fit
• Collaborative approach

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Whats in it for Private Sector?

• Potential Business in Scotland
• Expertise or solutions applicable worldwide
• Opportunity to work in partnership to develop
  ideas
• Potential source of investment - Enterprise
  Agencies
• Access to new funds
• Collaboration with EU
• Commonwealth
• UN

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How do we engage?

• Regular contact
• Support SCT through provision of
• Technical information
• Examples of best practice
• Benefits assessment
• Change management approaches
• Opportunity to support establishment of SCT
• Future conferences

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• Thank you to our conference sponsors/exhibitors
• BT
• Fujitsu
• iMetrikus
• CityIS
• Axsys
• NuVideo
• Informa
• Nortel
• RSL Steeper
• Tunstall / HomMed
• Highlands Islands Enterprise
• Information Services Division
• NHS Education for Scotland

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