Telehealth or telemedicine encompasses a broad variety of technologies and tactics which deliver virtual medical, health, and education services. Telehealth is not a specific service, but a collection of means to enhance care and education delivery. Telehealth is most commonly used in areas of health care such as dentistry, counseling, physical and occupational therapy, home health, chronic disease monitoring and management, disaster management, radiology, dermatology and consumer and professional education.
Telehealth allows long-distance patient and clinician contact and care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring and remote admissions. It also allows for provider distance-learning, meetings, supervision, presentations among practitioners, and online information, health data management, and health care system integration. For example, telehealth could include two clinicians discussing a case over video conference; a robotic surgery occurring through remote access; physical therapy done via digital monitoring instruments, live feed and application combinations; tests being forwarded between facilities for interpretation by a higher specialist; home monitoring through continuous sending of patient health data; client to practitioner online conference; or even videophone interpretation during a consult.
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