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"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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