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Telehomecare is a subfield within telehealth. It is the delivery of health care while the patient is at home, while the management of care is done from an external site by a healthcare professional. It is often interchanged with remote patient monitoring. However, telehomecare is not strictly patient monitoring but also incorporates a range of health care delivery through education, emotional and social support, information dissemination, and self-care help and suggestions. The implementation of telehomecare better manages patients with chronic health conditions such as heart disease, COPD, diabetes, etc. while also decreasing their visits to primary health care services. It increases the accessibility to health care services especially as the need for homecare will rise as the population increases and ages[1]. Telehomecare technology is designed to meet the needs of a range of patients. There can be patients requiring minimal monitoring or very sophisticated monitoring. A system can consisted of a small unit to which one or more peripheral devices are connected. This can include a blood-pressure monitor, wireless or wired weight scale, wireless glucometer, wireless pulse oximeter, peak-flow meter, or stethoscope (Lemelin et al., 2008). A telehomecare unit can collect data on vital signs and health information from patients who entered values into the system. This is done manually or directly through the supplied peripherals. The data is transferred through telephone lines to a secure server located at the manufacturer’s data centre. The data is then uploaded to a secure Web-based application, allowing healthcare professionals to access and review patient information from any location with Internet access (Lemelin et al., 2008)

Telehomecare can have significant impact on hospital admission and emergency room visit as well as walk-in clinic visit. For example, Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) conducted a trial program that involved more than 800 patients with one of two chronic diseases - Congestive Heart Failure or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary. The results were •	65% reduction in the average number of hospital admissions; •	72% reduction in the average number of Emergency Room visits; and •	95% reduction in the average number of walk-in clinic visits. OTN