Digital Journal August 27, 2023
Telemedicine concerns the use of electronic information and communications technologies in order to provide and support healthcare for individuals when distance separates the participants. Such technologies have helped to address healthcare provision in poorer and rural communities.
Delivery can come within four distinct domains: live video (synchronous), store-and-forward (asynchronous), remote patient monitoring, and mobile health.
In terms of advantages, telemedicine can give some specialty practitioners an advantage because they can see you in your home environment. However, operational challenges remain in terms of different technologies, the availability of different services and the lack of standardized approaches.
A new app is seeking to address previous limitations and to help to bring affordable healthcare to patients in the digital world. This is...
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