Are you ‘Ready, Steady, Go?’: Development of a telehealth implementation toolkit

Telehealth is considered to have great potential to support the ever increasing ageing population. In a drive to deliver better care many countries have invested in various telecare and telehealth initiatives. Telehealth services, however, are rare and many of the available services are either on a small scale or fail during the implementation process. Evidence suggests that this failure is due to a lack of understanding of the barriers surrounding implementation. In view of this the 'Ready, Steady, Go' telehealth implementation toolkit was developed by Brownsell and Ellis (2012) to assist all telehealth stakeholders in the implementation of large scale and sustainable telehealth services. It is available online at http://www.clarhcsy.nihr.ac.uk/images/resources/RSG-Toolkit.pdf and is embedded in the AHSN for Yorkshire and Humber business plan (2013) to support the implementation of two of the high impact innovations defined in 'Innovation for Health and Wealth' (Nicholson, 2011). The first version of the RSG toolkit was launched in September 2012 and is structured around the analogy of preparation for, undertaking and reviewing a race and is illustrated with photographs of people implementing telehealth technologies. The RSG toolkit is viewed as a "working" document, which means that it strives to continuously adapt and improve over time.

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