Objective: Identify innovations in educational processes in distance learning for the training of health professionals. Method: Integrative review of the literature in the Pubmed, Bireme, Scopus and Lilacs databases from 2005 to 2017, with the selection of 27 articles. Results: It was found for how to evaluate the educational process for the tested technology of 44.4% (12), Technology Developed 18.5% (05) and the two approaches concomitantly in the survey 37.1% (10). The educational processes used technologies such as the Virtual Learning Environment, WebQuest, Teleconference, radio, virtual playbook, multimedia, and hypermedia, as well as individualized systems to meet the need for improvement in the teaching-learning process. Conclusion: The resources used show a growing need for the use of images as an audiovisual form explored in most of the educational processes described and innovations such as the use of radio and animations.