Research Evidence As finite human beings, healthcare professionals cannot always be everywhere there is medical need. Communication technologies increasingly supply partial means to bridge this gap and extend the reach of timely medical expertise (Cheshire, 2017). Medical professionals can access many more people and be much more efficient with seeing their patients in a timely manner by using telemedicine. They are also able to see and treat patients who may have limited access to medical services because of a disability or disease. An example of this would be a patient who has a stroke, \"Stroke telemedicine technology bridges the gap of time and distance