The Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare aims to support our Community partners to adopt and expand the use of digital health and care to:
- improve access to person centred care;
- enable people to stay at home or in the community for as long as is appropriate and avoid the need for unplanned care where possible;
- enable people to better manage their own health and wellbeing, and improve their quality of life;
- improve access to specialist care services (where possible allowing consultation at home/from local healthcare facility/ hospital to hospital or hospital/healthcare facility to specialist’s home /office/to care home);
- supporting opportunities for regional or national services where relevant;
- safely and appropriately enable people to return to their homes or community as early as possible, after admission to hospital or care home;
- streamline care pathways to enable sustainable health and care services;
- effectively plan and manage appropriate transition from pilot projects to at-scale mainstream services.