Health Care Activity
telemedicine

tel·e·med·i·cine [ tel-uh-med-uh-sin, -med-sin ]
Subclass of:
Delivery of Health Care;
Telecommunications;
Medicine
Definitions related to telemedicine:
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Delivery of health services via remote telecommunications. This includes interactive consultative and diagnostic services.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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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 TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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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 ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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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, Inc., 2020
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