Medicine, in particular, is an industry and field that has been trying to offer more digital solutions, but traditionally was met with a lot of resistance. Despite there already being an extensive array of digital options for telehealth services, less than 20% of the population had ever used telehealth<\/a> previous to COVID19. Now that social distancing restrictions have forced patients and practitioners to accept telehealth solutions, the face of medicine has dramatically changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Telehealth describes remote health services and processes through digital means<\/strong>. This is a very broad term and encompasses a wide variety of services, both clinical (diagnosing, drug prescription, etc) and non-clinical (making appointments, accessing medical records, paying health bills). Telemedicine<\/em> <\/a>is the term for remote clinical care services specifically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Popular telehealth services:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many benefits for both practitioners and patients to having more digital options for healthcare services. But until COVID19, most people chose less efficient options if it allowed them to see a doctor in person, and continue to engage with medicine in the traditional way. It wasn\u2019t until March 2020 that this changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat is telehealth?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Coronavirus put telehealth on the map<\/h2>\n\n\n\n