Telehealth Programme

Telehealth is the "delivery of health care services, where patients and providers are separated by distance.

This is a web-based solution that helps healthcare providers offer video call access to their services as part of business as usual operations.

Remote health monitoring can harness digital technologies to provide wrap-around care to people in their own homes and reduce the need for hospital admission. 

Adopting a layered approach, Online Supports and Therapies may broadly be conceived as operating across four key levels:

The Telehealth Programme is governed by the National Telehealth Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Richard Greene. This steering committee reports directly to the lead of the Integrated Care Programmes.

To ensure broad collaboration, engagement, co-design and consistent local implementation processes, we are working with a large digital family including many diverse partners and collaborators across the healthcare service.

The evaluation of digital health interventions over time is noted as an attempt to attribute a range of outcomes to it through systematic consideration of usability, efficacy/effectiveness, and affordability.

Cooperation and working together (CAWT) is a partnership between the Health and Social Care Services in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which facilitates cross border collaborative working in health and social care, established for over 25 years.

The roadmap was created in response to Ireland's changing healthcare environment. Recent challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have emphasised the importance of a comprehensive telehealth strategy.