Advantages And Disadvantages Of Telehealth And Telehealth

Appendix H: Telemedicine and Telehealth
Telemedicine is the remote delivery of healthcare and information using telecommunications technology. The clinical applications for telemedicine are enormous in that they can involve initial urgent evaluation of patients for triage, stabilization, and transfer decisions, helps with supervision of primary care by non-physician providers when a physician is not available locally or provisions specialty care when a specialist is not available locally. Telemedicine can also help with consultations when a second opinion is needed or monitor and track a patient’s status as part of follow-up care or management of chronic problems and helps in the use of remote information and decision analysis to support or guide care for specific patients (Field, 1996).
Telehealth is a broader scope of remote healthcare services than telemedicine. Telehealth includes remote non-clinical services such as provider training, administrative meetings, and continuing medical

Telehealth allows small rural hospitals to continue providing quality care at low costs. Also, rural patients receiving care via telehealth can avoid driving long distances to access specialty care.
Using telehealth services is more feasible for rural healthcare facilities than staffing the facilities with specialist providers. Telehealth allows specialists to visit rural patients virtually. Specialties provided to rural communities via telemedicine include audiology, cardiology, dermatology, emergency care, gastroenterology, hepatology, intensive care units, obstetrics, ophthalmology, pharmacy, radiology, and stroke interventions Ways that telehealth can be used to improve healthcare are through such things