Telehealth, combined with IPC with different health areas, working together to support the patients’ integral treatment, becomes powerful in improving the team ability and interprofessional integration 6 it is capable of producing answers to several health problems in different meeting modalities and not just face-to-face. 4 Reeves et al argue that IPC is a more flexible form of interprofessional work, being similar to teamwork in that it requires shared responsibility and interdependence among individuals, in addition to clarity of roles and goals. In this context, they establish interprofessional collaborative practice as a term used to describe the elements of IPC implemented in the practice setting and belonging to an umbrella hierarchy term of the IPC. Morgan et al define interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as an active and ongoing partnership, often among people from diverse backgrounds with distinct professional cultures and possibly representing different organisations or sectors, who work together to solve problems or provide services. Telehealth shows an effective way to tackle difficult problems by enabling virtual meets, through which interprofessional teams and patients can share decisions and agree on a healthcare plan. 3 As the population ages and the prevalence of long-term conditions increases, telehealth is increasingly being used on team-based care delivery. Telehealth can provide additional opportunities for patients to receive interprofessional care, in order to improve self-management and adherence to treatments. Through telehealth, professionals and health teams from different geographical locations can collaborate and share evaluation methods, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and screening, and carry out interconsultations and matrix support in order to monitor and take care of patients. 1 In this sense, it is understood as a device that improves the quality of access to health services.

Its aim is bringing together and integrating health professionals, teams and services to increase patients’ access to healthcare, especially to those whose access is unavailable or limited. Telehealth is a broad term that refers to the use of different information and communication technologies for the remote delivery of health services.

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