Healthcare IT News: Telemedicine

Telemedicine or telehealth allows healthcare professionals to deliver health care services remotely outside traditional healthcare settings. The telemedicine services include remote diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of diseases via telecommunications technology. In developed and developing countries, telemedicine solutions provide a reduced cost solution to delivering remote care, excluding the building and staffing added facilities. Telemedicine services provide via different sources. Some of these sources include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, etc.