With the help of telecommunication technology, health care providers are able to use telehealth in order to connect to and provide care to patients that were generally considered unreachable otherwise, pertaining to their sheer distance, especially when it comes to patients who live in rural or remote areas.

1. How Can Telehealth Reach
the Unreachable?

2. • With the help of telecommunication technology, health care providers are able to use
telehealth in order to connect to and provide care to patients that were generally
considered unreachable otherwise, pertaining to their sheer distance, especially when it
comes to patients who live in rural or remote areas.
• Instead of having to drive for an hour and hours to reach the nearest doctor or healthcare
specialist, patients are able to use audio and video meet with the doctor remotely, that
too from the comforts of their home.
• Additionally, a lot of patients even prefer receiving health care at their own home so that
they wouldn’t have to arrange for transportation, have to skip work, or travel long
distances.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the health care system dramatically, and it has done
so by advancing some innovative telehealth technology and enabled it into widespread
usage.

3. • Healthcare providers have to limit their in-person contacts with the patients in order to
minimize the spreading of the coronavirus, and therefore, telehealth service providers
are filling the gap really well.
• Virtual healthcare options are a great way of providing care to patients in this time of
uncertainty and risk. And this applies not just to rural patients, but to urban patients as
well.
• From chronically ill patients to the patients who live in rural areas, here are ways
telehealth can reach patients that were considered to be unreachable before:

5. Providing care to rural patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus is known to be extremely contagious and it has been spreading across the
US for several months now.
While the coronavirus has mainly been concentrated in the urban areas, it is surely
starting to reach rural areas as well, and latest data indicate that the rate of infection is
rising at a fast pace too in the rural counties as compared to urban areas.
As the coronavirus pandemic is only spreading faster, health care and primary care Las
Vegas Nevada providers would be required to find new ways to reach out and provide
care to patients in such hard-hit rural counties.
Whenever a person experiences symptom of flu, they would call their local healthcare
provider for instructions, most probably.

6. • The healthcare provider would then be required to decide whether or not the person
should be risking seeking in-person healthcare, where they can be exposed to
coronavirus, or whether they are better off staying at home and self-isolating
themselves in order to limit spreading the virus.
• In order to limit in-person contact, the healthcare provider might use telehealth
service providers to consult with patient remotely, and thereby diagnose their
symptoms.
• It allows the healthcare provider a better chance to see and interact with the patient,
that too in realtime so that they are able to evaluate the subtle indicators that might
be affecting their treatment decisions.

8. Keeping up with the regular health care
• Health care facilities across US are having to postpone or cancel all elective procedure
in order to maximize their capacity for the coronavirus patients.
• Such cancellations include regular checkups as well as life-saving procedures and
surgeries.
• Telehealth can be used to atleast provide such patients the much-needed basic, primary
care.

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