Building Brilliance: TEC’s impact on everyday lives, celebrated at ITEC 2024

2​3 April 2024

This year’s ITEC conference seized the opportunity to show the power of technology enabled care to industry leaders, innovators, and stakeholders. At Access Technology Enabled Care (Access TEC), we were excited to showcase our groundbreaking efforts at shifting the paradigm from reactive crisis management to personalised and proactive care.

We aimed to spotlight our innovative approaches to redefining the future of care deliveries by leveraging how technology enabled care can proactively address individual needs.

By echoing The TEC Action Alliances’ call for a shift towards anticipatory care strategies, we demonstrated from the in-built living room at our stand, how our solutions support better proactive care decisions in real-time. This immersive experience showcased how ambient sensing can seamlessly integrate into daily life, promoting and increasing independence and personal safety.

Here, this article will review the multiple benefits, highlights, and key takeaways we experienced by attending this year’s ITEC Conference, as well as the many ways TEC can transform the future of health and social care.

Advancing TEC Awareness: Insights from ITEC 2024

At Access TEC we believe that ITEC Conferences are vital for showcasing the progress of the TEC sector and how it is evolving. This year was no different. In fact, it highlighted something crucial: for TEC to reach more people, achieve broader adoption, and foster improved outcomes, it needs to adapt and cater to individual needs.

What was made clear at ITEC 2024 and in the TEC Action Alliance’s Paper Implementing TEC, so we can all live gloriously ordinary lives, is that people want:

1. To stay well and connected
2. Live well in the home and community
3. Live safely in the home and community
4. Access quality information, advice, and support
5. Be able to monitor and manage their own care, health, and wellbeing needs
6. Draw on proactive support to maintain their care, health, and wellbeing

Here the conference demonstrated that TEC can cater and offer avenues to fulfill all these needs so individuals can feel better connected and empowered to remain independent for longer, enhancing their quality of life. But, for this to be shown, proven, and shared with wider sectors, a collaborative approach strengthened by co-production methodologies is needed to ensure the power of technology enabled care is understood.

More awareness on how TEC can cater to the evolving needs of individuals must be made clear to provide reassurance that timely support will be delivered when it is required, before something more critical takes place, by showing how turning data into actionable insight makes better data-informed decisions.

For this shift and these messages about the power of TEC to be successful, our next steps are to prove that TEC is delivering the right outcomes so we can achieve wider adoption.

To do this we need to move away and transcend from mere pilot research to comprehensive outcome validation. This can be achieved by demonstrating that when TEC is implemented correctly, it can transform the future of health and social care by seamlessly integrating technology and care to deliver better outcomes-focused care.

How is Access Technology Enabled Care proving TEC is delivering the right outcomes?

At Access TEC, our commitment to proving TEC is delivering the right outcomes goes further than offering solutions to enable better care.

We are dedicated to showcasing tangible evidence of how technology enabled care transforms lives by spotlighting the achievements of our customers.

The Government of Jersey is just one example where their investment in our technology enabled care digitally transformed and redesigned their service. By the Government of Jersey migrating to digital they were able to expand their services to include proactive prevention and actionable insights into the Jersey Care Record to deliver better coordinated and person-centred care.

One of our key initiatives has been hosting and coordinating roundtable discussions. Here stakeholders, providers, and customers have been able to come together to share insights and best practices to foster a collaborative environment. Here we have been able to gather invaluable learning experiences as well as solidify our understanding of what works best for facilitating TEC.

One example is having designated digital teams to not only use the data collected but to analyse it effectively to pivot towards more preventative care strategies. This, in turn, allows us at Access TEC to refocus our delivery models to better support individuals and their families to empower them to be able to self-manage their health and wellbeing more effectively.

To accelerate awareness and build further trust in TEC we have also created a guide highlighting the Power of Technology enabled care and how it can transform social care. Here we not only explain what TEC is but also the benefits it provides, whilst addressing any conflicts or concerns about TEC including issues surrounding budgets, personalisation, and scalability.

Most crucially we are committed to moving beyond pilot programs to showcase how TEC is a long-term solution to overcome the current challenges in health and social care. We are aiming to build a robust body of evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of TEC across various care settings.

By addressing perceived conflicts regarding TEC head-on and proactively engaging with guidance from the TEC Action Alliance Paper, we can ensure that we offer fully compliant actionable insights that are ready for the impending digital switchover to empower our customers to deliver proactive care seamlessly without any disruption.

Being able to explore how the TEC sector is evolving and showcase how Access TEC is progressing to enable wider adoption at this year’s ITEC conference was incredibly useful and insightful. Being a part of many discussions and panels to share the passion and vision of the potential of TEC was extraordinary.

“We disrupt together in Technology Enabled Care when we come together as a sector at events like ITEC. We would therefore like to thank the TSA for yet another amazing ITEC conference.”

Ronan Smith, Commercial Director at Access Technology Enabled Care

To find out more about Access TEC and what we are doing to transform care deliveries, improve care outcomes, and facilitate wider adoption of TEC, contact us now and we can show first-hand our next steps in showcasing the power of technology enabled care.