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Telehealth is an emerging care delivery modality with many nuances that can most simply be explained as a wide range of activities that aim to provide healthcare from a distance [12]. Telehealth makes it possible for people living in remote areas to connect across geographic distance which allows improved access to specialty health care [13]. Often, the terms telehealth and telemedicine are used interchangeably, but telemedicine has a narrower definition of the provision of clinical diagnosis and monitoring services whereas telehealth is broader and may include patient education, provider education, health promotion and remote monitoring [14].

While telehealth began with telephone calls between patients and providers, in recent years, telehealth has expanded to new modalities of communications as technology has become less expensive, more reliable and more widely available [15]. The four main modalities of telehealth are: synchronous (real‐time) communication via telephone or internet, asynchronous (store‐and‐forward) sharing of medical data with a later response from a healthcare provider, remote patient monitoring, and mobile health, sometimes called mHealth, which are typically wearable devices or smartphone apps that are directly marketed to the consumer [14]. Table 4.1 provides examples according to the four telehealth modalities that could be used for long term HCT survivors.