BC Advantage - 2017 Issue 3

Telehealth: The Global Growth of Telehealth Explodes

If you’re in the healthcare industry on any level, you’re probably aware that telehealth has continuously gained traction in the last decade, although it’s actually been around much longer having entered the marketing in the 1950’s. Telehealth encompasses a broad variety of technology-enabled care services but is it the same thing as Telemedicine?  Some organizations disagree. The American Telemedicine Association views telemedicine and telehealth to be interchangeable.  However, the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration defines telehealth as a “broader scope of remote healthcare services than telemedicine including non-clinical services like...

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