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R emote health care is an emerging area of medical and public health practice. The emergence of providing care remotely — for which both interactions between providers and patients and the collection and analysis of data, including laboratory testing data are required — was well underway even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting in early 2020, the pandemic provided a compelling use case for remote care, in that it allowed people to access health care providers for health care without having to balance the risk of seeking care during COVID with the benefits of receiving care. Many types of health care providers quickly stood up telehealth services or increased the availability of existing telehealth programs or pilot programs. Laboratories ramped up the processing of self-collected specimens associated with telehealth visits, allowing the continuity of care while reducing patient concentration in health care facilities. Considering the role of remote health in the context of public health programs raises a unique set of considerations, and articulating the goals of actors, and is important to allow for the thoughtful planning of and evaluation of To facilitate the consideration of the role of in public health we developed a conceptual framework to describe the and of remote and used the Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) 1 to develop an implementation framework for health. The goals of these were to provide a systematic to consider the requirements, outcomes, and determinants of success in the Here, we depict and describe and them in their to to support sexual health, including sexually infection (STI) and HIV and care programs. There are compelling to develop such frameworks in the context of a specific disease area, and there are sexual health programs are a good model for their application. Developing frameworks with respect to a specific disease area allows the development of principles in light of the specific clinical, prevention, and treatment services required of public health; other disease-specific programs can adapt model frameworks to include the