A DIY Guide to Telemedicine for Clinicians

Abstract

This chapter deals with the history and definition of telemedicine, which is followed by a discussion on the newly and rapidly becoming fashionable term “digital healthdigital health” that includes telemedicine as one of its main components (eHealth and mHealth being the other two). A section on the social mediasocial mediaand another on social networkingsocial networkinghave been added to address aspects that are specific to them.