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02/10/2006
Intellect’s healthcare programme manager, Sinead Quinn, was amongst the panellist of speakers discussing ‘Delivering 21st Century healthcare to the home’, at the prestigious Boston Partners Telemedicine’s third Annual Symposium: Connected Health - Empowering Care through Communication Technologies, at the Harvard Medical Center, 18-19 September, 2006. As well as Sinead Quinn and Intellect members, Tim Boulton, Jeremy Nettle, and Adrian Flowerday, clinical architect for the NHS Connecting for Health programme, Dr Mike Bainbridge, was among those especially invited to the panel to discuss: - the key strength areas of Telemedicine in England including the different approaches in Scotland and Wales - how the UK industry is driving the adoption of Telemedicine - how the UK government is driving adoption of Telemedicine - the differences with the UK and US - who is leading in Telemedicine practices, who is driving adoption of new technologies - the UK's biggest challenge areas and what it needs to do to address the challenges Commenting, Sinead Quinn, healthcare programme manager at Intellect, said: “Telehealth is a growing area in the UK and we were delighted to attend this event in Harvard to highlight best practice and new initiatives coming out of the UK and the comparison with advances in the US. We are happy to hear that NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH) is exploring how assistive technology might be provided on a bigger scale but in a sustainable way for the longer term and we hope that this will pave the way for new opportunities for our member companies.” The purpose of the annual symposiums is to bring together thought leaders from each aspect of healthcare and technology, to discuss the innovative applications of new healthcare communications technologies. It focuses on the application of these technologies and the impact on providing quality patient care, the management of telemedicine programs in healthcare settings and strategies for integrating connected health throughout the healthcare system. Senior healthcare executives, hospital administrators and IT directors, payers, providers and technology executives are among those who attend.
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