As our society ages and health care costs rise, public and private insurers are seeking technological interventions. Changes in health care policies, demographics, and technology have created new visions that facilitate the delivery of medical care to the rural community. Telehealth is an emerging component or solution to the growing delivery demands in the healthcare services sector. The advent of telemedicine is promising because it can address some of the challenges of our current health system. Telehealth as defined herein means the use of communications, diagnostic, and information technologies to provide health care when patients and providers are geographically separated; Technologies include videoconferencing, Internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, terrestrial and wireless communications” (Schwamm, 2014). This article provides an overview of telehealth technologies; costs, benefits of using telehealth, government involvement in supporting telehealth, concerns and issues that need to be addressed when using telehealth by integrating the system framework. The healthcare community has embraced technology, particularly when it is used to attempt to alleviate a problem or concern. Telehealth, or electronic medicine, was developed by the healthcare and IT communities to help deliver services to patients via telecommunications and the Internet. Telehealth is used to connect practitioners and patients directly from the comfort of their homes. Telehealth opens up services to a large population that may have had limited access to health services. Telehealth is an innovative and beneficial method of providing healthcare services to patients and should be implemented in every paper heart......ng Corporation (TLC), founded in 1957 and headquartered in in Raleigh, North Carolina (telehealthmarketplace.com). According to researchers, telehealth has a historical discussion linking telemedicine to the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875, as he worked on sound reproduction and transmission devices to help the hearing impaired (Smith, 2009). Thurmond and Boyle's study found that the first launch of telemedicine can be expressed by the use of the telephone system in 1877 for communication between doctors and local pharmacies of the time. Works Cited Brecht, RM and Barrett, JE (2010). Telemedicine in the United States, in Viega, SF and Dunne, K., (eds.), Telemedicine Practicing in the Information Age. Philadelphia: Lippencott-Raven Publishers, 31-36.