Telehealth involves the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long distance patient/clinician contact and care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. In layman’s language, telemedicine and telehealth are terms that represent the transfer and exchange of medical information between different sites.
What are the uses of telehealth?
Telehealth is used for collecting digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to access health care services remotely and also manage your health care. These are various technologies you can use from home or that your doctor uses to improve health care services
Benefits of Telehealth:-
- ·Improved Access
- · Cost Efficiencies
- · Improved Quality
- · Patient Demand
How does telehealth improve patient outcomes?
Telehealth can change the current paradigm of care and allow for improved access and improved health outcomes in cost-effective ways.
Telehealth increases access to healthcare: -
- · Remote patients can more easily obtain clinical services.
- · Remote hospitals can provide emergency and intensive care services.
What can telehealth be used for?
· Telehealth is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to access health care services remotely and manage your health care.
How does telehealth improve access to healthcare professionals?
Telehealth has excellent potential to improve the quality of rural healthcare. It can reduce burdens for patients, such as travel to receive specialty care, and strengthen monitoring, timeliness, and communications within the healthcare system.
What are the challenges of telehealth?
- · Improving patient outcomes.
- · Providing remote or rural patients access to specialists.
- · Increasing patient engagement and satisfaction.
- ·Improving patient convenience.
- · Improving leverage of limited physician resources.
- · Reducing unnecessary emergency department visits.
- · Decreasing hospital readmissions.
Telehealth can change the current face of Healthcare by improving health outcomes in cost-effective ways.