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What do we mean by digital health and social care?
What do we mean by digital health and social care?

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This free course was written by Lucy Rai.

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Figure 1: © Yuriy Bucharskiy / iStock / Getty Images Plus

Figure 2: Adapted from Evidence Standards Framework for Digital Health Technologies, March 2019, © NICE 2019

Figure 4: The Technology landscape, Delivering the benefits of digital health care, 2016, © Nuffield Trust

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Video 1: Used with permission from Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE)

Video 2: Courtesy of Health Service Journal

Video 3: © BBC

Video 4: Courtesy of Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Video 5: © Crown copyright 2018 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Video 6: Used with permission from Roar - Connections For Life https://www.roarforlife.org/2017/10/21/vr-over-the-doorstep/

Video 7: Used with permission from Northern Ireland Department of Health

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