Will this technology be viewed as dehumanizing patient care, or will they be viewed as a means to promote more contact with healthcare providers and new ways for people to stay connected (as in online disease support groups), thereby creating better long-term disease management and patient satisfaction?

Telehealth technology have advantages such as:

It promotes healthcare among patients by making accessibility to healthcare services more easy.

It reduces healthcare costs. Then,Telemedicine aims to meet the needs of today’s healthcare consumers and has the capacity to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare. It supports efforts to significantly improve the quality of healthcare by increasing accessibility and efficiency through reducing the need to travel, providing clinical support, overcoming geographic barriers, offering various types of communication devices, and improving patient outcomes.

Explanation:

The inconsistent use of language associated with the delivery and management of health care at a distance has made it even more difficult to distinguish the ontology of terms and describe their related safety and quality issues. Specifically, previous literature has used the terms telehealth, telemedicine, and telenursing somewhat interchangeably, and the few articles reporting safety concerns were difficult to cluster for further analysis.Telehealth improves health outcomes: Patients diagnosed and treated earlier often have improved outcomes and less costly treatments. Patients with Telehealth supported ICU's have substantially reduced mortality rates, reduced complications, and reduced hospital stays.