In this video, Michael Breslow, MD, explains that telemedicine has strong application in virtual patient care, whether in a rural community or large metropolitan areas.
So I guess we tend to use the word telehealth because telemedicine tends to be compartmentalized as doing medical consultations to remote locations. So we view telehealth as being a broader use of using technology to provide virtual presence regardless of whether it's a rural community or a major academic medical center in a large metropolitan area.
Michael Breslow, MD, is an expert on healthcare system improvement. When it comes to technology, including electronic medical records and telemedicine, he says, healthcare still has a long way to go.
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