The importance of telehealth for directors and other decision makers.

Innovation in healthcare services and clinical service redesign is a must because currently gaps exist between the care that people should receive for disease management and the actual care they receive. Directors and other decision makers should be aware of key challenges in the design, implementation and deployment of telehealth. In this paper, we discuss how telehealth enable chronic disease management, population health management and patient engagement, and what are the biggest challenges with getting value out of telehealth.