The Telehealth scheme also faced limited support from doctors in North Yorkshire, it said.
Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (GCCG) said Telehealth has helped "several hundreds" of patients.
So far, most mobile telehealth services, such as MyFoodPhone, simply use ordinary mobile phones to collect and transmit data.
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In 2011 NHS Gloucestershire invested in 2, 000 Telehealth units, which monitor the health of patients, but only about 750 people are using the systems.
Services that would be outsourced to BT include information technology, Telecare and Telehealth, payroll and employment support, invoice processing and document management.
Dr John Crompton, from North Yorkshire's Local Medical Committee, said while GPs "had an open mind" about the Telehealth scheme, they remained unconvinced.
There was a lack of evidence supporting the purchase of 2, 000 Telehealth monitors and no documentation to explain the scale of the project, according to the report.
Finally, the National Center for Telehealth and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, has put out an intriguing suite of mental health apps as well.
Not to states like Oklahoma, where telehealth is downright forbidden.
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Many observers expect mobile telehealth to take off in mobile-loving South Korea and Japan, but to lag behind in America, where consumers are more likely to raise privacy concerns.
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Telehealth and telecare, which covers everything from specialist equipment to help a patient monitor their condition to sensors in the home to detect falls, has been piloted quite successfully in several areas.
In practice, however, proving telehealth's benefits is tricky.
In theory, telehealth can cut the cost of care while at the same time improving its quality (for example, by letting doctors know about crucial changes when they happen, not at the patient's next appointment).
Groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Telehealth Care are working on developing initial guidelines on how to deal with electronic communication, said Peter Dehnel, a Minneapolis-based pediatrician who is chairman of the group.
Preliminary results were excellent - the first "headline" results published last year seemed to show that patients using telehealth were 20% less likely to be admitted to hospital and 45% less likely to die than their counterparts in the control group.
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