The following survey is being administered by the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center and Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, funded by a federal grant awarded to the University of Wyoming. The purpose of the survey is to better understand the needs of practitioners and health care organizations relating to telehealth services. The survey results will be used by the Wyoming Telehealth Consortium (Wyoming's statewide telehealth leadership organization) for the development of statewide telehealth initiatives.
A general definition of Telehealth is the use of advanced telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health care. Technologies used in Telehealth typically are: videoconferencing, the Internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications. Closely associated with the term Telehealth is Telemedicine. According to the American Telemedicine Association, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status.