Telemedicine in Adult Rheumatology: In Practice and In Training.

Telemedicine has been defined as "the use of medical information that is exchanged from one site to another through electronic communication to improve a patient's health" (1). There are several interactions to consider within telemedicine, including clinician-to-clinician, clinician-to-patient, and patient-to-mobile health technology, each of which can provide synchronous or asynchronous care. Traditionally, rheumatologists used telemedicine to provide care for patients with limited access to subspecialists, a care gap accentuated by the geographic maldistribution of rheumatologists in the United States.