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What do you need to know in here? - ANS - Telehealth -Telemedicine - Application of telehealth - eHealth What is Telemedicine? - ANS - Definition (1): is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' healt...

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What do you need to know in here? - ANS - Telehealth
-Telemedicine
- Application of telehealth
- eHealth

What is Telemedicine? - ANS - Definition (1): is the use of medical information exchanged
from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status.

Definition (1): _________may be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over
the telephone, or as complex as using satellite technology and videoconferencing equipment to
conduct a real-time consultation between medical specialists in two different countries.

________________ was the predominant term for the delivery of healthcare education and
services via the use of telecommunication technologies which has been replaced largely by the
term ________________. - ANS Telemedicine , Telehealth

What about Telehealth ? - ANS - began as a way to support remote clinician consultation
with point-to-point video contact.

Tellehealth defined as:
- "Delivery of health care services or activities with time and distance barriers removed and
using technologies such as telephones, computers, or interactive radio transmissions"

- Telehealth is an umbrella term that encompasses telemedicine, telenursing, teleradiology, and
telepsychiatry

Telehealth can be provided through variety of applications and services such as: - ANS 1-
Audio
2- Web
3- Video
4- Other forms of telecommunications technology

Telehealth via Voice - ANS The telephone offers many advantages:

1- Low installation and using costs

, 2- Minimal training for use
3- Ubiquity (present everywhere)

Telephone services includes:
1- Conferencing
2- Voice mail
3- Facsimiles
4- Video phones
5- Cell-phones / mobile phones

This has lead to: Mobile Health / m-Health

Telehealth via the Web - ANS Telehealth via the Web: With the emergence of the WWW,
web technologies expands their capability to accommodate healthcare services, on top of those
technologies are:

1- Email communication
2- Decision support tools
3- Web-based Applications

Examples of Telehealth via the Web: technology are:

- Emails to communicate with healthcare providers

- Healthcare web-based application. It is a - Community-computing network that provides
support services in the home of the chronic disease patients and their caretakers.

- Individual Web pages of Heart Care for cardiac artery bypass graft patients on discharge.

Telehealth via Video - ANS - For the past 30 years, radiology, dermatology, pathology and
psychiatry were the primary users of video applications.

- Video applications have moved from the hospital to the home environment.

- Growth in managed care lead to increasing the interest in using video technologies such as
Video conferncing, simulation video systems, real-time video, televisions with chronically ill
patients

- Examples:
1- Electronic Housecall: chronically ill patients received healthcare through a personalized
2-way interactive video system using a cable television network

2- Tele-Home Health: deliver care to a group of patients with advanced medical problems. Used
a videophone augmented with an electronic stethoscope

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