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telehealth,

the use of telecommunication technologies to provide health care services and access to medical and surgical information for training and educating health care professionals and consumers, to increase awareness and educate the public about health-related issues, and to facilitate medical research across distances.

telehealth [tel´ĕ-helth]

the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, professional health-related education, public health, and health administration.

telehealth

Health informatics The effects of telecommunication and information technology on the efficiency and quality of health care, services, education, public health surveillance, research, administration. See Telemedicine.

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