Unfortunately, news from some of the major telehealth projects outside the WSD programme has been less than encouraging. Earlier this year, it emerged that one project in Yorkshire was having to pay GPs to recruit patients. This week, it emerged that a project in Gloucestershire is in the same position.

Telehealth clearly has a part to play - as another pilot in Solihull, linked to a virtual ward, suggests. But health communities need more clarity about what that role is, before they try to put together a business case for more big projects.

Telehealth clearly has a part to play - as another project in Solihull, linked to a virtual ward, suggests. But health communities need more clarity about what that role is, before they try to put together business cases for more big projects. Drawing up business cases may fall to clinical commissioning groups in the future.

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Glocs GPs paid £70 a telehealth patient

A £5m telehealth project in Gloucestershire has deployed less than a quarter of its 2,000 devices in its first ten months.

Solihull virtual ward tries Air Products

A managed telehealth service has saved three hospital admissions in six weeks as part of a pilot in Solihull, while supporting the discharge of patients from a virtual ward.

Primary care faces 'app explosion'

A primary care IT specialist has predicted an "explosion" of cloud based and app technology in the sector over coming years.

Elsevier launches Clinical Key

Scientific content publishers, Elsevier, this week launched Clinical Key, a "clinical insight engine" that aggregates information from textbooks and journals.

PiF to build case for consumer info

The Patient Information Forum is to develop a business case for the benefits of consumer health information with the support of a Department of Health grant.

iSoft trial told of 'forgery kit'

Former directors of iSoft used a "forgery kit" to create a "bogus contract" to try and secure the position of the company and their own fortunes in the middle of the last decade, a court has heard.

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"The nightmare scenario [is] hundreds of uncontrolled apps with hundreds of user IDs and data everywhere totally disconnected."

"Once they had started the deception it required further deceptions to cover up the original lie. They had to do their best, because this was criminal behaviour, to ensure the truth would never, ever, emerge."

Richard Latham QC opens the case for the prosecution against former directors of iSoft who are accused of making misleading statements, promises or forecasts about the company at the start of the last decade, when it was in a race to acquire GP systems supplier Torex and win NPfIT contracts.

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