Federal efforts to define and advance telehealth--a work in progress.
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2014-05-07
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The integration of telecommunications and information systems in healthcare is not new or novel indeed it is the current practice of medicine and has been an integral part of medicine in remote locations for several decades The U S Government has made a significant investment measured in hundreds of millions of dollars and therefore has a strong presence in the integration of telehealth telemedicine in healthcare However the terminologies and definitions in the lexicon vary across agencies and departments of the U S Government The objective of our survey was to identify and evaluate the definitions of telehealth telemedicine across the U S Government to provide a better understanding of what each agency or department means when it uses these terms