• Delivery of health services via remote telecommunications. This includes interactive consultative and diagnostic services.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• The delivery of healthcare from a distance using electronic information and technology such as computers, cameras, videoconferencing, the Internet, satellite, and wireless communications.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• The use of telecommunications technology to provide, enhance, or expedite health care services, as by accessing off-site databases, linking clinics or physicians' offices to central hospitals, or transmitting x-rays or other diagnostic images for examination at another site. (Bartleby.com)
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Telemedicine, field in which telecommunication technologies and medicine interact to allow for the provision of health care remotely. Telemedicine can be viewed as an area within e-health, because it makes use of a wide variety of digital and interactive technologies with the goal of improving...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
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