Telemedicine is here but...

摘要

During the last decade, there has been an ongoing transformation in healthcare services using telemedicine, also known as telehealth. Telemedicine is the use of medical information via electronic communication to improve patients' health status. The term "tele-health" applies to remote healthcare communication, which does not always involve clinical services.Telemedicine emerged as a legitimate source of healthcare information to provide an ever-growing number of services, including health education. Initially, telemedicine was limited to phone, facsimile, and video conferencing, but with advances in technology, smart phones, tablets, apps, and high-speed internet enable patients and providers to connect and conference for consultations, diagnoses, second opinions, disease treatment, health monitoring, and medical education for a variety of health conditions.