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The Intel® Health Guide Lothian NHS Case Study
NHS in Scotland deploys Intel® Health Guide
The Intel® Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who manage patients with chronic conditions, is being used in the NHS Lothian telehealth programme. This 400 unit programme is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and will provide in-home care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)and other chronic conditions.
The programme is part of an ongoing collaboration between NHS Lothian and the Scottish Government, implemented by Intel and Tunstall. It follows a small-scale pilot of 30 patients with COPD. This condition affects more than 3 million people and is the second largest cause of emergency hospital admissions in the UK. Chronic conditions such as COPD can be characterised by flare-ups that often lead to a hospital visit, but the initial telehealth pilot demonstrated how these can be monitored and controlled from home by assessing symptoms and any change in patterns using the Intel Health Guide.
The large scale programme will start with 200 COPD patients and will later include those with other chronic conditions including cardiac diseases and diabetes across Edinburgh and the Lothian regions. A number of patients included in the programme will be enrolled in a randomised control trial being conducted by the University of Edinburgh. Results of this research will be available in 2010.
The Intel Health Guide promotes greater patient engagement and more efficient care by enabling communication between patients and their healthcare professionals, and by providing clinicians with access to the most current, actionable data for patient care. This solution offers interactive tools for personalised healthcare management and includes vital sign collection, patient reminders, surveys, multimedia educational content, plus feedback and communication tools, such as video conferencing and alerts. Clinicians have ongoing access to data so they can better manage each patient’s conditions, while patients benefit from medical care in the comfort of their own home.
NHS Lothian Pilot
View our video on how the Intel Health Guide has been piloted by the NHS in Lothian
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¹ The Intel® Health Guide requires an internet connection to enable communications with the patient’s care team and back-end data hosting. The Intel Health Guide is intended for use by patients under the guidance of a healthcare professional and is not intended for emergency medical communications or real-time patient monitoring.
Available in UK English; additional localised European language versions of the Intel Health Guide will be announced throughout 2009.