Educate Yourself Telemedical and Telecounseling

Telemedicine (Wikipedia)

"Telemedicine is a rapidly developing application of clinical medicine where information is transferred via telephone, the internet or other networks for the purpose of consulting, and sometimes remote procedures or examinations."

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A Model For Telephonic Medical Consults

Tommy Thompson, Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Donald Arthur, MD, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy Retired, 35th Surgeon General of the Navy

"Telephone-based medical care delivered by fully trained and qualified primary care physicians has become a staple of healthcare delivery throughout the United States. Telehealth primary care doctors include family practice physicians, internal medicine physicians, and emergency medicine physicians."

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Benefits of Telemedicine (National Center for Policy Analysis)

"Information technology has the potential to restructure medical care in ways that can solve many of these access problems, while reducing costs and improving the quality of care."

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Telephone Counseling (Wikipedia)

"Telephone counseling refers to any type of psychological service performed over the telephone."

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Depression Therapy by Phone May Work

Lasting Improvement Seen in 18-Month Study (WebMD)

"Getting depression therapy by phone may have lasting benefits, a new study shows. The study included 393 moderately depressed adults who had just started taking antipressants."

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Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits (Bio-Medicine)

"Telephonic counseling has been found to be of immense help for patients to lose weight and become fit, according to a study."

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Telephonic Counseling Can Help Drinkers Get Treatment (MedIndia)

"A recent study suggests that telephone counseling can be an effective tool in getting heavy drinkers to try quitting."

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