This desire for more convenient care, combined with the unavailability of many overburdened medical professionals have led to the creation of telemedicine apps.
There are 3 common types of telemedicine:
Interactive Medicine – which allows patients and physicians to communicate in real-time while maintaining HIPAA compliance, usually done through an app that allows for video chat.
Store and Forward – which permits providers to share patient information with a practitioner in another location.
Remote Patient Monitoring – which allows remote caregivers to monitor patients that reside at home by using mobile medical devices to collect data (e.g. blood sugar or blood pressure)