Abstract

Generally, health care services are provided to patient in person at clinic, hospital or medical office. But as new technologies like computer, phones are playing vital role in health care sector this scenario changes drastically. Telehealth is one of the new ways of delivery of health care services remotely via use of technology. It includes visit over computer and monitoring health of patient remotely. Hence patient can get advice from experts those are far apart from patient. In telehealth Patient can either communicate with doctor via online mode or via messages, images get advice from doctor. In the telehealth technique patient can sent health care related data to doctor and get advice. Telehealth apps are growing faster with time. The goal of this chapter is to describe telehealth services and social implications of telehealth in day-to-day life. This chapter focus on adaptation of telehealth with the help of technology access model. Telehealth includes four ways to communicate between doctor and patient “live video conferencing, Store & forward video conferencing, distant patient monitoring, Mobile health” out of which Mobile Health is currently in trading. The telehealth aids can be rise in profit, spot additional patients, conveniences, rate saving name of few recent innovations in Telehealth includes Robot, the chair, Dropping Readmission and I-Pad whereas the telehealth roles and responsibility includes identification of team members, defining the role and recognize the group fellows of an initiating site. This script includes telehealth introduction, telehealth communication ways, aids of telehealth, history of telehealth, telehealth application, rural services, innovation in telehealth and roles of responsibility of telehealth.

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