Telehealth is transforming healthcare for the better by ensuring that the doctor—your doctor— is never more than a phone or video call away.
Telehealth employs electronic communication and information technologies to provide first-rate healthcare services remotely. This includes a wide range of services, such as consultations with healthcare providers, remote monitoring of patients, and the ability to receive health information and prescriptions without visiting the doctor’s office.
Whether you live in a remote area, have mobility issues that make it difficult to access in-person care, or your personal situation makes it difficult to see the doctor, Telehealth provides everything you’ve come to expect from modern medicine without the hassle.
Today, telehealth continues to greatly expand access to healthcare for many people and reduce the burden on healthcare systems by allowing patients to receive care remotely, rather than having to travel to a healthcare facility. It also helps improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery by allowing healthcare providers to reach more patients and provide timely care.
An advantage made more pertinent during the pandemic. Telehealth keeps patients safe in the warm confines of their own home.
When time is of the essence, there’s little need to wait for an appointment when any number of skilled medical professionals can be right with you.
Not everyone lives close to the specialist they need. Remote healthcare makes the world small by putting you in touch with a vast network of doctors around the nation.
Travel arrangements, inclement weather, scheduling conflicts and the like do not affect an appointment that can be held anytime, anywhere.
Any doctor can be your doctor when all that’s needed is an internet connection. Every field, every specialty, every medical issue.
Whether you want a family member on the line or have a chronic medical condition, only Telehealth can be geared to what you need, when you need it.
As far back as the late 1800’s, the popular Lancet medical journal called for using telephones to reduce in-person visits.
In the 1920’s, during a period when radio and telegraphy were first used to diagnose and treat patients in remote areas of Australia, the cover of a science magazine envisioned a day when doctors will communicate with patients via video, utilizing as-of-then futuristic technology.
In the middle of the last century, medical professionals began transmitting images and records to other doctors and facilities, bringing modern video-communication advancements into the medical realm. It didn’t take long for patient monitoring and diagnosis to benefit from television technology as medical and research centers began linking up to provide better care.
The federal government would soon pour in a great amount of funding for research into providing remote healthcare in rural and underserved areas of the country. The greatest leap, though, occurred with the proliferation of the internet, as every device turned into a potential direct line to any medical practitioner.
Today, TellyHealth MD continues to pioneer advancements in the world of Telemedicine, bringing patients and providers closer together.
