Telehealth
Telehealth refers to an electronic way that healthcare professionals use to securely communicate (primarily through email or electronic health records) with one another on various schedules and across different time zones.
Healthcare Systems and Delivery
Behind every doctor’s visit or hospital stay lies a larger network that organizes and pays for care. This category explains how the healthcare system operates—from reimbursement models and policy programs to quality improvement and evidence-based practice. Learn what fee-for-service, value-based care, and accountable care organizations mean for you as a patient. By understanding these structures, you’ll see how care quality, costs, and outcomes connect—and how informed patients play a role in shaping better systems for everyone.
Retail Health
Retail Health refers to the growing sector of healthcare delivered through consumer-facing retail settings such as pharmacies, clinics, and in-store health aisles that offer medications, preventive care, medical supplies, and basic clinical services to make everyday health more accessible.
Pay-for-Performance
Pay-for-performance (P4P) is a payment model that provides financial incentives to physicians, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare providers for meeting specific performance measures.
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Remote Patient Monitoring
Remote Patient Monitoring refers to the use of digital technology to collect and transmit health data from patients outside traditional healthcare settings, such as at home, to healthcare providers.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means.