Telehealth is using technology by your healthcare practitioner to enhance and support healthcare services. It uses online information and communication technology to manage your health care and receive medical treatments from a distance. Telehealth provides resources for patient education, mobile applications, and other technologies that include individuals in their healthcare. You, the patient, and the health provider can use the technologies such as computers and mobile gadgets like smartphones and tablets you might use in your home in telehealth. Another definition of telehealth provides for the exchange of digital images for the diagnosis, such as x-rays, CT scans, or photos of skin lesions.
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• Provide first-line treatment for a range of diseases.
• Provide safety for yourself and others in this era of the COVID-19 epidemic and the prevalence of non-communicable illnesses.
• Ensure that those who live in distant or rural locations may obtain healthcare.
• Improve the patient's relationship with the medical team and their ability to coordinate treatment.
• Increase accessibility of services for people with a lack of time, limited mobility, or access to transportation.
• Make medical professionals accessible.