"Telehealth - Eliminating Distance in the Practice of Healthcare and Wellness"
Telehealth replaces what would have traditionally been a face-to-face interaction between a care provider and a consumer or fellow healthcare provider, when they are in different locations. In dong so, it leverages an expanding array of "tele" technologies for health care, including health related mobile, home, health facility, consumer and "apps" capabilities, and is often the most visible part of eHealth from the patient's perspective. Telehealth continues to evolve as an important discipline within health informatics and is becoming more tightly integrated with other eHealth delivery channels in enabling improvements in health care. Telehealth improves access, equity, quality and productivity in the provision of both health services and education.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
