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CT: Telehealth includes audio or video conferencing between patients and professionals, often supported by EHR, remote monitoring, often integrating decision aids and alerts, as well as semi-automated administrative and triage tools. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, remote triage using humans and algorithms helped to connect patients with appropriate services. This included medical teleconsultation for acute illness, nurse-led chronic disease reviews, remote therapeutic interventions (e.g. for mental telehealth) and remote pregnancy monitoring. It also offers convenient professional-to-professional interaction, such as advanced video links for early stroke detection, teleradiology and assisted surgical procedures.
S: ELSEV – https://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-atencion-primaria-27-articulo-strengthening-primary-health-care-in-S0212656724000465?referer=buscador (last access: 28 January 2025).
N: 1. From “tele-” (before vowels properly tel-, word-forming element of Greek origin meaning “far, far off, operating over distance,” from Greek tēle “far off, afar, at or to a distance,” related to teleos (genitive telos) “end, goal, completion, result” -from PIE root *kwel- (2) “far” in space or time; the element also could mean “telegraph” by mid-19c. (teleprinter); “telephone” by late 19c. (telecopier), “television” by 1928 (tele-talkie, “motion picture broadcast by television”); and “by electronic means” by 1981 –teleshopping, originally hypothetical), and “health” (Old English hælþ “wholeness, a being whole, sound or well,” from Proto-Germanic *hailitho, from PIE *kailo- “whole, uninjured, of good omen” -source also of Old English hal “hale, whole;” Old Norse heill “healthy;” Old English halig, Old Norse helge “holy, sacred;” Old English hælan “to heal”-; with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho).
2.Telehealth is using electronic communications to provide or get health care services. You can get health care using phones, computers, or mobile devices. You can find health information or talk with your health care provider using streaming media, video chats, secure email, or text messages. Your provider can use telehealth to remotely monitor your health with devices that can remotely record vital signs (for example, blood pressure, weight, and heart rate), medicine intake, and other health information. Your provider can also communicate with other providers using telehealth.
Telehealth is also called telemedicine.
3. Hygiene and Health: telehealth, tele-health.
- Telehealth uses information technologies to link patients and health care providers to a wide variety of services outside their community. People in rural and remote locations can be linked to family physicians, specialists and other health services in other centres where health care providers can diagnose, treat and provide consultations at a distance.
4. Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian); Hygiene and Health; Internet and Telematics: Telehealth (Canada).
- Telehealth uses communications technologies to deliver health information, services and expertise over short and long distance. For example, it can help health care providers in rural and remote areas to communicate with specialists anywhere in the country (Canada).
5. The Health Resources Services Administration defines telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications.
Telehealth is different from telemedicine because it refers to a broader scope of remote healthcare services than telemedicine. While telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical services, telehealth can refer to remote non-clinical services, such as provider training, administrative meetings, and continuing medical education, in addition to clinical services.
There are several other ways to define telehealth.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tele- (last access: 28 January 2025). 2. MLP – https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000919.htm (last access: 28 January 2025). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=telehealth&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 28 January 2025). 5. Healthit – https://www.healthit.gov/faq/what-telehealth-how-telehealth-different-telemedicine (last access: 28 January 2025).
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S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=telehealth&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 28 January 2025)
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CR: computer science, intelligent system, Internet, medicine, telemedicine.
