Telemedicine PART A - What is telemedicine? Explain Contribution? Telemedicine is increasingly cited as part of the emerging area of e-health for example:- the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT & the INTERNET) to provide health care. The World Health Organisation definition of telemedicine is: "The delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, …showed first 75 words of 3068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3068 total…care and greater efficiency. ·<Tab/>Primary Care will experience the changes in the relationships with secondary care, the way that referrals can be made and how patients can be better supported at home. Developing a multilevel approach will stimulate discussion of the issues and facilitate the development of services. It would be best driven by a co-operative partnership between government, health services, the professionals, industry and patients' representatives.