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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, …

…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.