Telehealth, the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to provide health care at a distance, is becoming a vital tool in meeting the health care needs of low-income and underserved children. Telehealth utilizes ICT to provide a wide array of health services to individuals without requiring the individual to interact face-to-face with the health care provider delivering the care. Common applications of telehealth include videoconferencing between a patient and a health care provider for a consultation or among groups of patients or providers for education, support, and care coordination; transmission of data, such as x-rays, photographs, video, and audio files; remote monitoring of vital signs and other health indicators; and Internet applications to provide patient education and to assist patients with managing chronic health conditions.

School-Based Telehealth: An Innovative Approach to Meet the Health Care Needs of California Children outlines how the application of telehealth in schools is emerging as a valuable way to complement and expand the capacity of schools to meet the health care needs of children, particularly those who are low-income and living in medically underserved areas.

Meeting the Health Care Needs of California's Children: The Role of Telemedicine describes how telemedicine is used to improve the health of California's children, especially those who are low-income or living in medically underserved areas.

Model Telehealth Statue: The Children's Partnership worked with a broad array of stakeholders to advise the Center for Connected Health Policy's development of a telehealth model statute-a set of recommendations for modernizing California's telehealth laws so that telehealth can reach more underserved children and other populations.