TeleHealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. TeleHealth allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention and monitoring via texting, email, phone, web and APPs.
TeleMedicine is the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically present with each other in the same location. Doctors can consult with patients by using HIPAA compliant video-conferencing tools from any device like a cell phone, computer or tablet as well as texting and phone.