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In this webinar we explored how you can validate the resilience of Technology Enabled Care (TEC) solutions. 

Resilience in technology enabled care (TEC) is vital to maintain a robust and reliable infrastructure that enhances the safety of service-users and promotes better health and care outcomes. Therefore, when selecting a TEC solution, resilience is highly ranked as a key factor to test and consider.Despite the importance of resilience, the Adult Social Care sector lacks a clear definition of what ‘resilience’ is resulting is a sea of conflicting information from suppliers and providers about how ...

In this webinar we heard different perspectives on what it means to get the analogue to digital switchover right, here’s a summary of what we learnt!

This webinar comes at a critical time for local authorities. With many factors to consider and time pressure building, deciding how to transition to digital can be confusing and overwhelming, making it difficult to be confident that you are making the right choice. The panelists from Essex County Council, 2iC-Care and Hackney Borough Council will discuss questions that local authorities should be asking their colleagues, TEC solution providers, and service-users to help build confidence in their...

As experts in interoperability, 2iC-Care are deeply passionate about all the ways in which interoperability will create better outcomes for service users and improve the efficiency of care provision.In January 2023, 2iC-Care's CEO, Richard Keyse, published Clear solutions for clear outcomes which helped to define interoperability for the care sector and differentiated interoperability from compatibility. If you have not yet had a chance to read this, I recommend adding it to your reading lis...

By Richard Keyse

The 2iC-Care team will be sharing thoughts and advice in the coming weeks to play our part in helping the care sector transition to digital in 2025 and prepare for the challenges care services face in the future.

We sometimes get asked, “Why is interoperability so important in healthcare?” and this interesting article provides a high-level explanation.   https://electronichealthreporter.com/why-healthcare-interoperability-is-so-important-in-2022/ It states that most health technology is developed in a vacuum creating silos of critical information that are inaccessible and unconnected in caring for patients. By contrast, w...

A key challenge in the care sector is the stakeholders’ mesh of costs and benefits. We are all judged by our own organisation’s responsibilities and goals and not incentivised to invest money that may reduce the overall cost, if the benefits are accrued by other organisations.

Tech providers can learn from IOT mistakes from other sectors. Interoperability has been the key topic in social care for many years. It’s not just joining devices from different manufacturers. The sector can now leapfrog straight to the latest IOT capabilities.