Consumer Informatics

Clink on the link below to view the video of my PowerPoint presentation: Telehealth in Today's Healthcare Target Audience: Telehealth can benefit healthcare consumers (patients) and a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals: physicians, patients, case managers, social workers, etc. Telehealth services can also benefit professionals in the pursuit of continuing their education via distance learning. With the growing demand of services provided electronically such as electronic medical records, patient portals, and many smartphone apps to monitor health behaviors, the use of telehealth services will continue to rise; these services are the future of patient-centered care. Lessons Learned: I learned a great deal about where telehealth originated from, I had no idea it started almost thirty years ago with NASA and the military. I also learned about the differences between telehealth and telemedicine and its expansion in healthcare. While I knew the basics of what serv...