glossary

Telehealth/Telemedicine

Telehealth is the use of telecommunications technology to transmit health information from one location to another to improve health status. As such, telehealth enables connections among providers, and between providers and patients, linking potentially distant resources with more convenient sites of care. The patients may be situated in another medical facility or clinical office, may be at home or, increasingly, may be mobile and simply interested in having certain clinical values monitored remotely.