Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology.
Some of the emerging trends in telemedicine include the use of wearable devices to monitor patients’ health, the use of artificial intelligence to diagnose patients, and the use of virtual reality to train medical students.