Telehealth is health-related services and information through electronic communication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician care, education, and monitoring. Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym, or is used in a more limited sense to describe remote clinical services, such as diagnosis and monitoring.

Telehealth (Telemedicine)

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Information technology, applied to health and health care. It supports health information management across computerized systems and the secure exchange of health information between consumers, providers, payers, and quality monitors.

Health information technology

- improve health care quality or effectiveness
- increase health care productivity or efficiency
- prevent medical errors and increase health care accuracy and procedural correctness
- reduce health care costs
- increase administrative efficiencies and healthcare work processes
- decrease paperwork and unproductive or idle work time
- extend real-time communications of health informatics among health care professionals
- expand access to affordable care

Goals of health information technology

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