Telehealth is the remote care delivery or monitoring between a healthcare provider and a patient outside of a clinical facility, such as in the patient's place of residence, either through phone monitoring (via the telephone) or telemonitoring (through electroinic information processing technologies). 

Telehealth is a practice tool that can:

• reduce home care visits
• reduce avoidable hospitalization
• increase self-management by patients
• increase access to specialized health care to rural areas
• allow real time medical consultation to patients living in rural locations
• increase efficiencies and reduces costs for providers and for patients

Learn more about Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality's work to help home health agencies and hospitals adopt and implement telehealth technolgy to improve quality.