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Telemedicine
Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arrhythmia Monitoring | a device that monitors heart rate |
| Baby CareLink | its purpose was to compare high-risk,premature infants receiving traditional care with an experimental group |
| Bluetooth | a wireless technology that can connect digital devices from computers to medical devices to cell phones |
| Interactive Videoconferencing | allows doctors and patients to consult in real time, at a distance |
| Remote Monitoring Devices | transmits signals over communications lines, making it possible for patients to be monitored at home or in ambulances |
| SATELLIFE | founded in 1898, its purpose was to deliver journals and other information to health care workers in developing areas |
| Store-and-forward Technology | technique in which the data to be sent is digitized, stored, and transmitted over + |
| Teleconferencing | allows doctors to consult with each other and with patients in real time, at real time. |
| Teleradiology | involves the sending of raidogical images in teleradiology lines. |
| Telepathology | is the transmission of microscopic images over lecommunications times. |
| Teledermatology | the practice of dermatlology using telecommunications networks |
| telehealth | includes telelmedicince and other health-related activities using telecommunicatons lines and computers,including educaton, research,public health, and administraton of health services |
| Telehome care | invoves the monitoring of vital signs from a distance via telecommincations eqipment and the replacement of home nursing visits |
| Telemedicine | uses computers and telecommunications equipment to deliver medical care at a distance |
| Teleneurology | neuorology was slower to use telemedicine than other specialties |
| Telenursing | involving teletriage and the telecommunicaton of health-related data,the remote house call, and the monitoring of chronic disease. |
| Teleoncology | systems are helping cancer patients avoid lenghty trips to the doctor and feel more secure because they have a 24-hour |
| Telepsychiatry | involves the delivery of therapy using teleconferencing |
| Telespirometry | can be used at home by asthmatic patients |
| Telestroke | a program that connects small local hospitals with stroke experts. |