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telemedicine
[ tel-uh-med-uh-sinor, especially British, -med-sin ]
noun
- the part of the telehealth system that uses internet and telecommunications technology, as video calls, to provide clinical services, as medical consultation, evaluation, and diagnosis, either in real time when the patient and the medical professional are in different locations or facilitated by remote monitoring and record sharing among healthcare providers:
Rural patients may find that the only way for them to see a specialist is via telemedicine.
- (loosely) telehealth ( def 1 ).
telemedicine
/ ˈtɛlɪˌmɛdɪsɪn; -ˌmɛdsɪn /
noun
- the treatment of disease or injury by consultation with a specialist in a distant place, esp by means of a computer or satellite link
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of telemedicine1
Example Sentences
Last April, Costco made headlines when it introduced its brand-new weight loss program, which was launched in partnership with the online telemedicine platform Sesame.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in January against a New York-based physician, Maggie Carpenter, co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas patient in violation of Texas’ near-total abortion ban.
In mid-December, Paxton filed a lawsuit in Collin County alleging Dr. Maggie Carpenter, the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Access, provided a Texas woman with abortion pills in violation of state law.
More than that, however, the suit is a window into the next battlefield over abortion rights — and how abortion pills and telemedicine are reshaping the politics of abortion in America.
Besides targeting telemedicine and pills, antiabortion groups plan to pursue anyone who aids or abets abortion — for example, internet service providers that allow websites to provide information about abortion pills and where to get them.
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