Four Factors Fueling Demand for Telehealth

By Claire Thayer, May 7, 2015

Telehealth, as defined by the Health Resources and Services Administration, is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications. 

MCOL’s infoGraphoid for this week identifies these four factors as the key components fueling the increasing demand for telehealth:

• Reduce Health Care Costs
• Improve Access to Care
• More Productive Workforce
• Better Patient Experience

MCOL’s weekly infoGraphoid is a benefit for MCOL Basic members and released each Wednesday as part of the MCOL Daily Factoid e-newsletter distribution service – find out more here.