Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Technology that sends information about your health to your doctor from your home, to help manage long-term conditions such as diabetes or chronic heart failure. Things like your temperature or blood pressure can be measured and the information sent via telephone line or broadband to a telehealth monitoring centre, where it is checked against information from your doctor. It means any problems can be picked up before they become urgent, and allows your doctor to monitor you in between appointments. It is also known as telepractice.