www.tanjent.co.uk

TanJent Consultancy was created in January 2004 by Tom Jones, one of the UK’s foremost healthcare management consultants. It now works globally, including Europe, South America and Commonwealth countries.

Tom is a Regional Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for Arts and a qualified accountant. His goal over many years has been to develop economic and financial techniques and methods to improve health and social care services. He has considerable experience in the strategic, economic, financial and management of eHealth across Europe and other global regions. This is a main part of his activity in applying new financial management, organisational, training and development models in healthcare. His projects include: 

•  Economic and financial evaluation of ehealth across the EU and for developing countries
• Developing businesscase models for investment decisions for eHealth
•   Economicevaluation of telecare and telemedicine
•  Developing and evaluating healthcare management in several EU member states
•  Developing healthcare commissioning
•  Training in healthcare and social services finance and business cases.

All projects reflect his acknowledged expertise in ehealth finance and economics.

TanJent has the considerable experience in assessing and evaluating the feasibility of telehealth and working with African countries on a wide range of eHealth topics. The eHealth impact (eHI) evaluation models developed originally by TanJent from 2002, are the main methodology used for over 40 evaluations, including 23 for the European Commission projects on the impact of eHealth, and are currently being refined for international organisations to use for their telehealth projects. This includes timescales and risks, two factors often understated in these types of projects.

The eHI model is generic and always need adapting to specific settings. For this project, the eHI model enables all the topics of the feasibility to combine into a single evaluation so that an complete view of all the success and risk factors are seen together, and alongside the range of potential impacts. Examples of the use of the model in retrospective evaluations of successful eHealth are at www.ehealth-impact.org and www.ehr-impact.eu . Other evaluations that identified poor performances are not available publicly, but reveal important information to organisations about taking corrective action. All these rely on assessments of the performance of eHealth solutions.