Author: Davis, Adrian

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: September 2015

This year the American Telemedicine Association estimates more than 450,000 patients will see a doctor in the form of a virtual visit over a secure Internet connection. As new models for service delivery and population health emerge, virtual physician visits are fast becoming an important....

Author: American Telemedicine Association

Source: External web site

Publication Date: May 15, 2006

Author: Fletcher, Donna M.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 1998

Telemedicine is the use of any electronic signal to transmit medical information from one site to another. This includes the transmission of medical information by video, e-mail, telephone, and satellite. Benefits of these transmissions include:
improved access to healthcare....

Author: Johnson, Marlene L.; Warner, Diana

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: May 2013

Editor's Note: This practice brief supersedes the April 1997 practice brief "Telemedical Records."



Telemedicine is a rapidly growing industry in the medical practice. Telemedicine is defined as telecommunications systems that link healthcare organizations and patients from d....

Author: Majerowicz, Anita; Tracy, Susan

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: May 2010

Traditionally, healthcare has been provided in the physician’s office, hospital, or outpatient clinic. Patient care has been based primarily on face-to-face contact, with the exchange of information via conversation.

However, technology is changing how and where care is delivered. M....

Author: Fletcher, Donna M.

Source: AHIMA practice brief

Publication Date: April 1997

This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.

Author: AHIMA Staff

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: March 2015

Health Information Management (HIM) professionals have a notoriously hard time getting folks in the C-suite to take on new health IT projects. But in one area, at least, that's beginning to change. Telehealth (or telemedicine) may have reached the tipping point in seeing a return on investment,....

Author: Martin, Melissa

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2016

In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly traveled from 1985 to 2015, and while there he used videoconferencing to communicate with his coworker Needles. Although the real 2015 might not be exactly the world that Marty McFly found in the movie, teleconferencing with a doctor and other te....

Author: AHIMA; et al.

Source: AHIMA testimony and comments

Publication Date: February 25, 2014

Letter in support for the TELEhealth for MEDicare (TELE-MED) Act of 2013.

Author: Welch, Julie J.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: February 1999

Telemedicine is "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications for the health and education of the patient or healthcare provider and for the purpose of improving patient care."1 According to a recent report to Congress by the US Departments of....