TeleHealth: operational issues to consider.

Recent developments in the telecommunications and the information technology fields hold the promise of improved access to and better utilization of an integrated health care related resources. In addition, to these developments, the deployment of interactive distant training programs offer an opportunity to decrease the knowledge gap between the leading academic medical centers where new medical expertise is continuously being discovered and remote health care practitioners who find themselves pressed to deliver quality care that meets the needs of their communities in a competitive environment of limited resources.