Telehealth

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Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, health administration, and public health. This includes data sharing by way of patient portals and electronic medical records. Telehealth encompasses a broad range of technologies and services used to provide patient care, health education, public health services, and health administration remotely using telecommunications technologies. Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym but is actually a subset of telehealth. The Federation of State Medical Boards defines telemedicine as "the practice of medicine using electronic communication, information technology, or other means between a physician in one location, and a patient in another location, with or without an intervening health care provider." When rural settings, lack of transport, a lack of mobility, conditions due to outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics...

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