Hi I'm Jon Hoeksma, editor of EHI. I've got a problem, I want to confess. I think I've become too sceptical about the immediate prospects for telemedicine to be adopted at scale without signfiicant government investment. Help!

Hi I'm John Cruickshank, with 2020health. I wrote a major report 'Healthcare without Walls' a year or so ago on what was needed for telehealth to scale up in the NHS, once the Whole System Demonstrators's results were published. I'm excited that we're now at that point and the 3 million lives campaign gives a real opportunity to push telehealth-enabled services forward.

Hi, I am Jean Roberts, time-served health informatician with lots to say about my pet areas of interest, one of which is the area of telehealth. This term is I think an umbrella term and should cover all the constituent parts such as telecare, telemedicine, ambient and assitive living .... it is about using various technologies to empower individuals to live independent, safe lifestyles and to deploy scarce health and care resources to best effect. and I would love to move away from the implication of tele-medicine (ie docs only) to involving all other clinical and health management professionals. Text messages as reminders to attend clinics or take your pills, or to push notice of a new article on a certain topic of individual interest to a professional (if Amazon can do 'others who bought this ...' why do we not make more use of 'others who read this .....'??

All this is part of the improvement spiral, with the caveat that those deploying it do not expect magic just by dropping technologies into the equation !

Currently at the start of discussions with our local FT about telehealth. Many GPs in this area are worried about the workload implications and clinical governance issues should practices take on the hosting and monitoring of this kind of service. It is likely we would need to provide safety by these services being offered by larger units and integration may only be possible if we utilise the resources of, for instance, our local FT.

If there are alternatives, that come with funding streams, I'd love to know.

Working in Telecare, Telehealth, eHealth, interested in mHealth currently working on a Euro Project - communal Telehealth and social interaction integrated technologies.

@dcripps - I think your response is, and will be, a typical response from GPs across the country.

'if used correctly telehealth can deliver....' is the telling line from the WSD Headline Findings. Correctly means change, management, budget reallocation, infrastructure reshuffle and many other words that mean everything but 'slip Telehealth into your existing service'.

It borders on a leap of faith at this point in time and attendance at the Telechurch is low amongst clinicians right now.

Hi I'm Lee, working at O2 health. Telehealth is being seen as the saviour of the modern NHS. Pushing hospital services into the community, having remote consultations from your home, managing your own illness and been seen by a community nurse before you even know there is something wrong. This is all meant to save money, reduce the strain on hospital A&E and outpatient departments.

I'm working with a number of trusts exploring the use of this type of technology in the community, and what savings will be experienced. If you'd like to know more mail me: lee.rudd@o2.com

I'm on my current research project that involves telemonitoring in some aspect. Previously I was looking into the design of telemonitoring systems and now I'm studying how the NHS adopts (or doesn't adopt) innovative technologies.

I'm struggling to identify NHS organisations/people who have considered/tried ECG telemonitoring (regular monitoring carried out by the patient - not remote diagnosis of 12 lead ECGs). If anyone knows of any - please contact me (peirces (at) cardiff.ac.uk). Thanks.