As our society ages and health care costs rise, government and private payers seek technological interventions. Changes in health policies, demographics, and technology have created new visions that aid in the provision of medical care to the rural community. Telemedicine is an emerging component or solution to growing delivery needs in the healthcare services industry. The advent of telemedicine holds promise as it helps combat some of the challenges of our current healthcare system. Telemedicine as defined here is the use of communication, diagnostics, and information technology to provide healthcare when patients and providers are geographically separated; Technologies include video conferencing, the Internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, terrestrial and wireless communications” (Schwamm, 2014). This document provides an overview of telemedicine technologies; costs, benefits of using telemedicine, government involvement, support for telemedicine, concerns and issues that need to be addressed in using telemedicine by incorporating the structure of the system. The healthcare community has embraced technology, especially when it is needed to try to alleviate a problem or concern. Telemedicine, or e-medicine, was developed by the healthcare and IT communities to help provide services to patients via telecommunications and the Internet. Telemedicine serves to provide a connection between professionals and patients directly in the comfort of their homes. Telemedicine opens up services to a large population that may have had limited access to healthcare services. Telehealth is an innovative and beneficial method of providing healthcare services to patients and should be implemented in every charter corporation (TLC), founded in 1957 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina (telehealthmarketplace.com). According to researchers, telemedicine has a historical discussion linking telemedicine to the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1875 because he was working on devices for reproducing and transmitting sound to assist the deaf (Smith, 2009) . Thurmond and Boyle's study found that the first launch of telemedicine can be expressed as the use of the telephone system in 1877 for communication between doctors and local pharmacies at the time. Works Cited Brecht, R. M., & Barrett, J. E. (2010) . Telemedicine in the United States, in Viega, SF & Dunne, K., (eds.), Telemedicine Practicing in the Information Age. Philadelphia: Lippencott-Raven Publishers, 31-36.