Telehealth definition

Telehealth means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-managements of a patient’s health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site. Telehealth facilitates patient self-management and caregiver support for patients and includes synchronous interactions and asynchronous store and forward transfers.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver
Telehealth means the use of information and communications technologies consisting of telephones, remote patient monitoring devices or other electronic means which support clinical health care, provider consultation, patient and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services as described in regulation.

Examples of Telehealth in a sentence

  • The number of patients in each of the additional Telehealth Clinics will be scaled to allow for additional administrative time based on the number of qualifying Primary Care Clinics on the basic weekly schedule.

  • Providers will have the option to add to their administrative time by accepting additional weekly Pediatrician Primary Care Telehealth clinics with a variable number of patients scheduled.

  • Telehealth (virtual visits) will be available when desired and deemed appropriate by the Patient and physician.

  • Providers will have the option to add to their administrative time by accepting additional weekly qualifying Telehealth clinics with a variable number of patients scheduled.

  • Telehealth clinics performed in Primary Care Provider or Pediatric classifications towards additional administrative time are not eligible for this payment, but providers in these classifications may receive this payment if performing completed billable telehealth visits during unscheduled time.


More Definitions of Telehealth

Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver Occupational Therapy services for assessment, intervention and/or consultation.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver professional counseling services remotely to assess, diagnose, and treat behavioral health conditions.
Telehealth means the use of telecommunications technology by a Medicaid-enrolled provider to deliver functionally equivalent health care services including: assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, and transfer of medically relevant data. Telehealth may include real-time interactive audio-only communication. Telehealth does not include communication between a provider and a member that consists solely of an email, text, or fax transmission.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver audiology or speech-language pathology services at a distance for assessment, intervention and/or consultation.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication
Telehealth means the use of interactive audio, video, or other electronic media to deliver health care. It includes the use of electronic media for diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and medical education;
Telehealth means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment education, care management, and self-management of a patient’s health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site.