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Technical English For Information Science and Electronic Engineering Unit 14 Telemedicine and Biomedical Signal Processing Part I Telemedicine New Words New Words New Words 1 Telemedicine may be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone, or as complex as using satellite technology and video-conferencing equipment to conduct a real-time consultation between medical specialists in two different countries.1 1 It can also involve the use of an unmanned robot. Telemedicine generally refers to the use of communications and information technologies for the delivery of clinical care. 2 Care at a distance (also called in absentia care), is an old practice which was often conducted via post; there has been a long and successful history of in absentia health care, which has metamorphosed into what we know as modern telemedicine thanks to the modern communication technology.2 3 In its early manifestations, African villagers used smoke signals to warn people to stay away from the village in case of serious disease. In the early 1900s, people living in remote areas in Australia used two-way radios, powered by a dynamo driven by a set of bicycle pedals, to communicate with the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. 4 The terms e-health and telehealth are at times wrongly interchanged with telemedicine. Like the terms “medicine” and “health care”, telemedicine often refers only to the provision of clinical services while the term telehealth can refer to clinical and non-clinical services such as medical education, administration, and research.3 4 The term e-health is often, particularly in the UK and Europe, used as an umbrella term that includes telehealth, electronic medical records, and other components of health IT. 5 Types of telemedicine Telemedicine is practiced on the basis of two concepts: real time (synchronous) and store-and-forward (asynchronous). 6 Real time telemedicine could be as simple as a telephone call or as complex as ro