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What is Telemedicine and Telehealth?


 "Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications . . . "
-American Telemedicine Association, 1998

Telemedicine -- refers broadly to the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide or support a diverse group of health-related activities that may include health professionals' education, community health education, public health research, and the administration of health services. 

Telemedicine -- refers to the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide or support a diverse group of health-related activities that may include health professionals' education, community health education, public health research, and the administration of health services.

Telemedicine / Telehealth Network -- a set of functional relationships among facilities. A network usually contains a hub and at least one spoke, but may contain multiple hubs or spokes. A network can contain several different projects with distinctly separate funding sources. As a sum of all these parts, the network provides and obtains telemedicine services such as consults.

 

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