What is telehealth?
According to CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapist), “under California law, ‘Telehealth’ is the delivery of health care services using information and communication technologies to consult, diagnose, treat, or educate a patient while the patient is at an ‘originating site’ and the health care provider is at a ‘distant site’. The ‘originating site’ is the site where a patient is located at the time health care services are provided through a telecommunications system.”
Telehealth is a live, real-time, interactive, audiovisual, two-way communication. An example of a live, real-time, interactive communication is therapy performed over the telephone or through videoconferencing.