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WHAT IS TELEHEALTH
Telehealth is the utilization of information and telecommunications technologies to electronically distribute health care services and health care data between health care providers, or between health care providers and patients.
It is broad in scope. The practice of telehealth includes all health care stakeholders as participants. Telehealth applications can range from basic to complex, such as: telephone, email or use of internet; remote screening, monitoring and diagnostic consultation; digital imaging and distance learning.
Telehealth practices generally require changes to traditional clinical business process and policy, along with an advancing technical infrastructure to enable optimal distribution of electronic information and services between patients and providers.
The term e-Health encompasses all electronic health data exchange. Telehealth and telemedicine practices generally fall under the banner of e-Health in a hierarchical-type fashion as illustrated below.
Sample Applications — Not All-Inclusive
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