Definitions and applications
| Telemedicine | Distribution of health services in conditions where distance is a critical factor, by healthcare providers that use ICT to exchange information useful for diagnosis at distance |
| Telecommunications | Use of cable connections, radio, optical means or other electromagnetic channels to transmit or receive signals, such as voice, data or video communications |
| Telematics | Use of telecommunications to permit computers to transfer programs and data |
| Teleconsultation | Second opinion on demand between patient/family and staff or among health operators; opinions, advice provided at distance between two or more parties separated geographically |
| Telemonitoring | Digital/broadband/satellite/wireless or Bluetooth transmission of physiological and other noninvasive data (i.e. biological storage data transfer) |
| Decision support systems | According to a sentinel value, an alert starts for health personnel, who call patient |
| Remote diagnosis | Identifying a disease by the assessment of the data transmitted to the receiving party through instrumentation monitoring a patient away from the clinic |
| Tele-evaluation | On-demand data transfer to use as biological outcome measures |
| Telecare | Network of health and social services in a specific area; in case of emergency, patient calls medical personnel, emergency call service or members of family |
| Telerehabilitation | Allows reception of homecare and guidance on the process of rehabilitation through connections for point-to-point video conferencing between a central control unit and a patient at home |
| Telecoaching | Direct reinforcement or recorded messages/communications to improve adherence |
| Teleconference, audio | Electronic two-way voice communication between two or more people located in different places |
Reproduced from [3].