Systems Improvement and Organizational Culture The purpose of this project is to evaluate the readiness to initiate telehealth/telemedicine in hospitals. Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration. Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide or support clinical care at a distance. Included in this definition are patient counseling, case management, and supervision/preceptorship of rural medical residents and health professions students when such supervising/precepting involves direct patient care. Sources of Private Funding Sources of Public Funding Tools Transformational Change Click here for a Text Only Version of the site © 2008 South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care, All Rights Reserved