P4 Digital Healthcare Convention

The delivery of health and care using distance technologies is of growing global interest but is of particular relevance to the Highlands & Island of Scotland, where expertise in the field of telehealthcare has developed through the combined efforts of academics, business people and healthcare professionals.

As a result, a telehealthcare summit was held in May 2010, in Inverness, at which a vision of telehealthcare for Scotland in 2020 was developed (http://www.hie.co.uk/telehealthcare-summit).

The vision describes a preventative and personalised approach to healthcare, offering humanistic and convenient healthcare for the general public. It also identifies that a telehealthcare cluster of international standing would result in Scotland becoming one of the healthiest and happiest nations on the globe; quite an aspiration.

A follow on event will take place in Inverness on the 30th Sept and 1st of October to explore how the vision can be reached and a cluster built. Invited leaders from the Scottish public sector and industry will convene on the 30th September to discuss action planning to achieve these goals. On the 1st of October, a meeting open to healthcare professionals, industry and patient groups will be convened to explore the rise of P4 digital healthcare; the delivery of preventative, predictive, personalised and participatory healthcare using distance technologies.

Further details about the agenda and the registration process can be found at http://www.digitalhealthcareevent.com