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What Is Telemedicine & Telehealth?

• A radiologist interprets medical images coming from four clinics across the state.
• A consumer uses a wireless phone to automatically upload vital signs and send it to a
  remote monitoring center.
• A cardiologist checks up on a heart transplant patient while away on a business trip,
  reviewing the patient’s chart, looking at live heart rhythms and talking to the patient.

These are all examples of telemedicine and telehealth, a not‐so‐new technology that is slowly
transforming the way healthcare is delivered. Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two‐way video, email, wireless phones and other forms of telecommunications technology. Starting out over forty years ago with demonstrations of hospitals extending care to patients in remote areas, the use of telemedicine has spread rapidly and is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operations of hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumer’s homes and workplaces.