Telemedicine
Some of the traditional barriers to health care have been eliminated or reduced by the use of technology that helps deliver health care to patients from a distance. This is defined as telemedicine. According to the American Telemedicine Association, telemedicine is defined thus: "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's clinical health status." ("What is Telemedicine," 2016).
There are a variety of uses and applications of telemedicine and the users are growing rapidly. There are regular innovation and upgrades of the applications of telemedicine in the medical world. While the use of two-way video, or email, or over smartphones and other wireless tools and devices making use of the internet or telecommunications technology has become commonplace in the modern health care system, the application is finding its real use in delivering regular and much-needed health care services and products to the rural population or for communities that are far flung and generally remain cut off from health care services (Doarn & Merrell, 2011).
To the extent that telemedicine is now getting integrated into the ongoing operations of various hospitals, the specialty departments, agencies...
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