Telehealth is a twenty-first century solution to a persistent problem in healthcare today-how to provide high-quality services with shrinking resources. The appropriate use of technology to provide health services is one strategy to increase access to services. The term telehealth incorporates the wide array of systems available to transmit data from remote locations. Using personal computers and telecommunications systems, healthcare providers are now able to assess, diagnose, and monitor patients at a much lower cost than for face-to-face encounters