Editing Health informatics (section)

===Telehealth and telemedicine===
{{see also|Telehealth}}

[[File:Операционная. ФЦН (Тюмень) 01.JPG|250px|thumb|right|Telemedicine system. [[Federal Center of Neurosurgery (Tyumen)|Federal Center of Neurosurgery in Tyumen]], 2013]]
[[Telehealth]] is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym, or is used in a more limited sense to describe remote clinical services, such as diagnosis and monitoring. Remote monitoring, also known as self-monitoring or testing, enables medical professionals to monitor a patient remotely using various technological devices. This method is primarily used for managing chronic diseases or specific conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes mellitus, or asthma.

These services can provide comparable health outcomes to traditional in-person patient encounters, supply greater satisfaction to patients, and may be cost-effective.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Salehahmadi Z, Hajialiasghari F | title = Telemedicine in iran: chances and challenges | journal = World Journal of Plastic Surgery | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 18–25 | date = January 2013 | pmid = 25489500 | pmc = 4238336 }}</ref> Telerehabilitation (or e-rehabilitation[40][41]) is the delivery of rehabilitation services over [[telecommunications network]]s and the Internet. Most types of services fall into two categories: clinical assessment (the patient's functional abilities in his or her environment), and clinical therapy. Some fields of rehabilitation practice that have explored telerehabilitation are: neuropsychology, speech-language pathology, audiology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. Telerehabilitation can deliver therapy to people who cannot travel to a clinic because the patient has a disability or because of travel time. Telerehabilitation also allows experts in rehabilitation to engage in a clinical consultation at a distance.