What is Telehealth ??

According to Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition, telehealth is “the use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services.” After the prosperity of telecommunication technologies, telehealth will become a popular business in the next ten years. Health professionals discussing one case via telecommunications is one kind of telehealth. Besides, transmitting medical or surgical information or images to provide clinical care is also one kind of telehealth, but it is usually called “telemedicine.” By the way, it is easy to confuse telehealth with telemedicine. Telemedicine is one kind of telehealth, but telemedicine particularly refers to providing clinical care. We will need more efficient ways to take care of the elderly such as telehealth, because the population of the elderly are growing. As a result of a large amount of data from people’s vital signs, health service providers need to spend a lot of time reading an extremely huge group of people’s data. Telehealth is a good way to deal with the health of the elderly. Moreover, by using telehealth, it is easy to increase the health awareness of the elderly. The elderly would follow the good health guidelines, and they will become more healthy. In addition, by using telehealth, it is easy to train and educate the elderly how to have a healthy body. To sum up, telehealth will become a hot trend because the number of elderly population who want to have good health are going up.