"Store and forward” of messages, images, and data to be collected and reviewed at a later time. Can include patient portals with secure messaging

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- synchronous
- asynchronous
- remote patient monitoring

Telehealth modalities

Using Telehealth to Expand Access to Essential Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020, June 10). 
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/telehealth.html

Using Telehealth to Expand Access to Essential Health Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Patients and clinicians use smartphones, tablets, or computers to audio or audio-video call. May include an in-person medical assistant using peripheral medical equipment (such as a digital stethoscope) while a remote clinician evaluates the results in real-time


Synchronous telehealth

Asynchronous telehealth

Telehealth encounters can be encountered by the following:
- E-consult: clinician-to-clinician communications
- Remote patient monitoring
- E-consult: patient-initiated communication
- Telephone visit
- Video visit

Telehealth encounters

Remote patient monitoring, or the direct transmission of a patient’s clinical measurements to a healthcare provider, provides an efficient method of monitoring conditions as they progress. Symptoms and developments of chronic conditions can be tracked effectively as well.

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