TELEMEDICINE

Telemedicine



Telemedicine

Telemedicine refers to health care or health education that is transferred to remote locations via computer networks, using multimedia applications. Telemedicine is a component of the wider realm of telehealth, which is concerned with the delivery of health information over the Internet, and with cooperative educational ventures among health practitioners. Many predict that, with developments in telecommunications such as broadband, lowered technology costs, and the widespread diffusion of the Internet, telemedicine will continue to expand over the course of the twenty-first century, influencing the delivery of medical care throughout the world. However, evolving ethical and policy issues, such as privacy, ...