What is the difference between tele-medicine and tele-health? 2. Mention what services are in the scope of tele-health?  How to answer Medical Informatics questions as above?

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1. What is the difference between tele-medicine and tele-health?

2. Mention what services are in the scope of tele-health? 

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 THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TELE- MEDICINE AND TELE- HEALTH IS THAT:- Telemedicine refers to remote Medical Services. On the other hand, Tele-health is related to non- medical and medical Services. In short, we can define telemedicine as only one part of Tele-health. 

While Telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical services, Tele-health can refers to remote now Clinical services, such as providing Training, administrative meetings, and continuing medical education, in addition to clinical services. 

Well, indeed both are the practice medicine that uses electronic and telecommunications technologies to transfer medical information for the delivery of clinical care And educational services at a distance but, 

THE-HEALTH RESOURCES SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEFINES "TELE- HEALTH as the use of electronic information and Tele communications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include video conferencing , the internet, store and forwarding images, streaming media and terrestrial and wireless communications. 

 

 

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