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DEFINITION Telemedicine refers to the electronic transfer of patient information. In its simplest form, telemedicine may simply be a telephone but, recently, telemedicine refers to remote video consultation. ... Specialist consultation can be arranged via the telemedicine system as well. ... Ace Allen began using telemedicine in lieu of flying hundreds of miles in a two-seater to attend clinics in western Kansas. From that practical interest in distance medicine, Allen began publishing ¡§The Telemedicine Newsletter,¡¨
BENEFITS OF TELEMEDICINE
With support from the Technology Opportunities Program, the Regional Medical Center at Lubec has installed equipment that allows nurses from two vast counties in northeastern Maine to make electronic home visits to ailing people who otherwise might have to be institutionalized. ...
TELEMEDICINE FOR PRISONERSA variety of suggested non-monetary impacts of prison telemedicine were investigated during this evaluation. ...
Specialty care needs such as orthopedics, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, urology, neurosurgery, oral surgery and vascular surgery have arisen in the last few months, and UTMB physicians provided telemedicine consults to Antarctic doctors in these areas. ... supplies the technology for the South Pole telemedicine program.
Approximate Word count = 881
Approximate Pages = 3.5
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