TeleMedicine: It is the "use of information technology to deliver medical services and information from one location to another".
Tele-health: The provision of health care at a distance (using ICT facilities)
E-Health: "E-health is a new term used to describe the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector" OR is the use, in the health sector, of digital data-transmitted, stored and retrieved electronically-for clinical, educational and administrative purposes, both at the local site and at a distance.
...see also "What is e-health" as defined in the Journal of Medical Internet Research; Issue 2, Volume 3 (April-June 2001)
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