Where next for telehealth? Reflections from the 2nd International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare

On the 6–8 March 2012, The King’s Fund and the University Medical Centre Utrecht hosted the second International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare that successfully brought together policy-makers, academics, professionals, users, innovators and industry from countries from all over the world both face-to-face and online. During the three-day event, some 500 delegates, speakers and sponsors were in attendance with another 600 online delegates. The twitter reach of the congress (#kft12) was also significant appearing on 131,000 people’s timelines via 1500 tweets!