Telehealth definition

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 same as that term is defined by section 1 of P.L.2017, c.117 (C.45:1-61).
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.

Examples of Telehealth in a sentence

  • Teladoc, a Third-Party Corporate Telehealth Provider, provides consultations by phone or secure online video.

  • If you are currently receiving telebehavorial health services for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, you can continue to receive those services with the MHSA Participating Provider rather than switching to a Third-Party Corporate Telehealth Provider.


More Definitions of Telehealth

Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver professional counseling services remotely to assess, diagnose, and treat behavioral health conditions.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication technology to deliver Occupational Therapy services for assessment, intervention and/or consultation.
Telehealth means the application of telecommunication
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 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.
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.
Telehealth means the use of electronic information and telecommunications