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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS . What licensure model would be most useful to port 5. How much does usability affect you and your friends telehealth clinical practice across international bound- aries for example, Canadian doctors or nurses (virtually) seeing and treating U.S. patients or U.S pharmacists and ccupational therapists (virtually) seeing and treating 6. What actions can individual healthcare providers take to Australian patients? when deciding to accept or reject the use of a new tedh- nology? Does this also apply in your role as healthcare provider? improve their patients' eHealth literacy? 2. How do the different models for delivering healthcare, 7. What needs to occur on an international basis for including covering the cost of that healthcare, affect the telehealth programs in different countries? uHealth to be operationalized? 8. What are the first five steps you would take to start a tele What actions can individual healthcare providers take in the next 3 years to advance the benefits of telehealth for their profession? health program or application in the healthcare facility where you work? 4. Why has the telehealth adoption taken so long in the 9. What key success criteria for telehealth programs are "must have" and what criteria are "nice to have" whe considering a new telehealth initiative? healthcare industry when Skype, cellphones, and other video conferencing applications have been used in per 10. What factor or factors will be most important in sonal and business interactions for decades? the exponential growth of telehealth in the future?

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Telehealth involves healthy service and information via electronic information and communication technologies.

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1. ​​​​​​video conferencing is the appropriate method to implement health services across the international boundaries. If a specific health facility is not available in a particular country, the client can search and find an expert in the required field and consult with them. Eg. If an extra expert physician or nurse in cancer- liver is not available in India, we can find the same in America or other countries. This can be said that search and find method
2. Technical advancement in all fields affect the Telehealth programs For example, home delivery of health through a single finger as that of online shopping is available in some countries. Ie doctors will be available at home immediately when a client intimate the service of a physician or nurses to meet health emergency at home. These kind of technologies may affect the telemedicine system. Here it ensures only a virtual communication with the health team but in the earlier case, the patient get real services at the doorsteps immediately.
3. Acquire technical training for handling tele health services. This reduce the work load of the health care team. Involve in the research and innovation activities in the field of applications of telemedicine. Seeking the opinions of experts in the field to enhance the quality care through virtual system.
4. The Telehealth adoption among the mass will take long. Because it is very difficult to deviate from a long doing tradition in a single day. And also, people may think that 'how this can happen? ".The middle class still belive the traditional patient doctor communication and treatment methods. And also they may possess the doubts on the credibility and qualifications of the physician and how the medical examination could be done. These may be the reasons why the reluctance of the mass to switch to telehealth approaches.
5. Usability is the key factor in adopting a change in any setting. We have to compare it with existing practice and adopt the new one only after found it sound interesting and effective than the earlier set up. Yes. It is applicable in health care settings as well. It is a natural tendency to continue the existing practices and reluctance to accept new one. But if the new one is so useful and effective, we will atleast try to implement in small scale. Usability is the important factor.
6. Awareness programs are the key.Mass awareness and exposure to those technological advancement should be done.​​​​​Settling ground breaking evidence of successful implementation of Telehealth methods.This may inculcate confidene in the mass to adopt the changes.​​​​Teach the patients and others effectiveness and low cost of Telehealth treatment modalities over traditional health practice prevalent here.
7. Technical literacy and availability should be ensured. Make them cost effective and reduce out of pocket expenditure than traditional health care practices..International awareness campaign to be conducted. Governmental commitment in the situation is necessary.
8. Key steps in starting Telehealth programs in the health care setting

• Establish a sound financial plan
• Create convenient and effective work environment to establish a telemedicine system
• Mainstream telemedicine into the standard care process as pilot basis and assessment of its response
• Plan and assure effective training
• Horizontal and vertical implementation
• Good marketing

9.​​​​Key success criteria includes:​ 1.Affordability and availability of health care system​.2.adequate number of qualified, expert health care team members. 3.Advaned medical examination techniques. 4.Adequate therapeutic communication and patient complaints Redressal mechanisms. Criteria which are nice to have: 1.Free health care check ups at regular intervals.2. 24×7 communication system available to the clients

• ​​​​​​10.Availability of medical care and treatment at a single finger is astonishing. It may replace the long ques in front of the hospital and getting appointment with the phycian. Easy availability of expert health services is the key factor