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Telehealth Systems

Oren J. Mechanic  1 , Yudy Persaud  2 , Alexa B. Kimball  1
In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan.
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Telehealth Systems

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Telehealth is the use of a technology-based virtual platform to deliver various aspects of health information, prevention, monitoring, and medical care. The fastest growing sector of health care, telehealth's largest segment is telemedicine. Narrowly, telemedicine is defined as the practice of medicine via a remote electronic interface. There are distinctions within telemedicine delivery. Most hospital-based health care delivery is doctor-to-doctor, providing expert specialist medicine to often rural, international, or nonspecialist physicians. In contrast, patient-to-doctor medical care is a growing market, and patients can reach physicians via direct-to-consumer services via telemedicine. The 3 types of telemedicine services are synchronous, asynchronous, and remote monitoring.

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Disclosure: Oren Mechanic declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Yudy Persaud declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Disclosure: Alexa Kimball declares no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

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