Telehealth and Telemedicine - Transforming Healthcare, Episode 4
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- Telemedicine is physician-patient care via electronic communication; telehealth includes broader services like education and admin meetings.
- All telemedicine is telehealth, but not all telehealth is telemedicine—telemedicine focuses specifically on clinical care delivery.
- Three main telemedicine categories exist: telementoring (teaching), teleconsultation (specialist access), and telemonitoring (remote tracking).
- Telemedicine enables diagnostic testing, post-treatment monitoring, and specialist access across geographic distances.
- Telehealth encompasses non-clinical remote services including provider training, administrative meetings, and continuing medical education.
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Hey everyone, we are back with a new episode of our Transforming Healthcare series, where we introduce new technologies that we believe will transform healthcare. Today, we're talking about telehealth versus telemedicine. Telemedicine, also known as telepractice, is defined by the Federation of State Medical Boards as: "The practice of medicine using electronic communication, information technology, or other means between a physician in one location and a patient in another location, with or without an intervening healthcare provider". Even though we can see that telehealth and telemedicine terms can be used interchangeably, telehealth is different. Telehealth refers broadly to electronic and telecommunication technologies and services, including the internet, video conferencing, store and forward imaging, streaming media, and wireless communications used to provide care and services at a distance. For example, telemedicine includes conducting diagnostic tests, closely monitoring a patient's progress after treatment or therapy, and facilitating access to specialists that are not located in the same place as the patient. On the other hand, telehealth includes a wider variety of remote healthcare services beyond the doctor-patient relationship. While telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical services, telehealth can refer to remote non-clinical services like administrative meetings, medical education, and provider training. In short, all telemedicine is telehealth, but not all telehealth is telemedicine. There are three main categories of telemedicine, telementoring, teleconsultation, and telemonitoring. Stay tuned for our next video where we will focus on specific applications of telehealth and telemedicine. Download the Stakecure app, follow us on social media, and subscribe on YouTube channel. And remember, knowledge should be free.