Talk:Telehealth

message: I have been reading about telehealth and telemedicine and it seems that both terms are most of the time used interchangeably. From the latest I have read, telehealth is sometimes defined as broader in scope than telemedicine. But I do wonder, do we need two separate articles or should there be just one article and let the other one redirect to it?
Books fan 16:14, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Telehealth]] vs. [[Telemedicine]] 

message: At present, eHealth is little more that a collection of definitions.  It can probably be merged into this article with a fair amount of ease.Novangelis (talk) 18:33, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Telehealth and e-health are clearly closely related. However, I don't think they are quite the same. They represent terms connected to different technologies, approaches and periods of development. So, I don't think a merger is the right way forward. Bondegezou (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Disagree with merger. The eHealth article was longer but was trimmed by another editor, I've been planning on beefing it up again. It is different than telehealth, which focuses on use of remote communications in healthcare. eHealth is much broader, and includes a number of technologies and approaches beyond telehealth. In fact some might argue that telehealth is a subset or specific area within the broader area of eHealth. --Karl.brown (talk) 17:42, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless there are versions I missed, there is nothing but definitions (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary).  If it's not an article on its own, it would seem logical to preserve the terminology in the best related article.  Compare to mHealth which is a substantial article. Don't you think that with so many overlapping definitions, keeping a collection of definitions isolated from content will create confusion? Merging is not terminal. This is a rapidly growing field.  When there is enough content, individual subjects will get their due. Novangelis (talk) 18:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I actually created the mHealth article and have been encouraging people in my network to contribute to it - it is also a growing and new field and thus a lot of energy has been generated around it. As for eHealth, take a look at this version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EHealth&oldid=261190659 - as you can see there used to be more content, and there is room for much more. eHealth is a widely accepted terminology for the use of information technology in health - many european countries for example have eHealth strategies. The closest term is not telehealth, but health informatics, so if eHealth was merged it should be merged into that article, but since these terms evolved separately and are used in distinct ways in the literature I still think the eHealth article has a reason to exist on its own. See here for literature backup on the definition of eHealth (this citation used to be part of the eHealth article I think: http://www.jmir.org/2005/1/e1/ --Karl.brown (talk) 20:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That best version is still just definitions and links. The external link you referred me to underscores the mutability of terminology. While health informatics might be a better target, the fundamental problem — content scattered across underdeveloped articles — remains. Without unique content or even a clear definition of the subject, this article should become either a redirect or a disambiguation and the existing work moved to an article with solid content and development. You know your stuff and you care about the content that is languishing here. What can you propose as an alternative?Novangelis (talk) 21:02, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I say lets give the other editors time to comment on this proposed merger. If the merger is declined (which I suspect it will be, as the terms really are different), then in the next few months I'll work on adding content to the eHealth article - based on the research available in the literature around ehealth and its distinction from health informatics (many in health informatics will tell you they do not do eHealth). I just dont have time for deep editing now, but hopefully others can help. --Karl.brown (talk) 23:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Karl. eHealth is definitely not a component of Telemedicine and should not be merged. It is a larger encompassing topic which as outlined in the page, incorporates several related topics. Given the focus on the term eHealth recently, and the important distinction between eHealth, Telemedicine, Teleconsultation, mHealth, etc. I would suggest keeping it separate. I'd like to see Karl's addition to the page, of course. Askanter (talk) 20:52, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose merging [[eHealth]] 

message: I would object to links being continually added to Nuview health by user Bmludwig, as that page, which was created by him, has already been speedily deleted as spam. Kittensandrainbows (talk) 14:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to Nuview Health 

message: I deleted the merge tag suggesting a merge to Telemedicine. There has been a lot of discussion on this on both pages, all going nowhere. The tag has been there since April 2008. Due to formatting of the comments, it's not even easy to tell what people's opinions are on whether to merge. If someone wishes to restart a merge discussion, please do so below, and put Merge or Don't Merge in bold so future users can clearly see people's opinions. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 02:50, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I deleted the merge tag 

message: I propose that Telemedicine and eHealth be merged into this article. The actual content of the articles overlaps a great deal; this term is slightly broader, so this is the preferred target in my view.  Jytdog (talk) 00:31, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I still support but am unable to make time to do the merge anytime soon.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

text: Klbrain (talk) 06:46, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Merge I favor a merge. In the above discussion, I count 4 in favor of a merge versus a couple ambiguous comments and one against. Even if telemedicine is distinct, I think it can live as a subsection of telehealth. Also, there's a comment at Talk:Telemedicine#Definition_of_Telemedicine where an author of a textbook says they used the terms interchangeably. II | (t - c) 01:45, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I still support but am unable to make time to do the merge anytime soon.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:35, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

text: Klbrain (talk) 06:46, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge polling 

message: I think it would be interesting and useful to add some information on the greatly increased use of telemedicine since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic about March 2020. My undocumented impression is that many doctors who refused telephone or computer appointments in the past, at least where I live, are now insisting on them in order to avoid spreading Covid. However it would be good to have some properly sourced information and analysis of the past and present situation.  Dirac66 (talk) 16:40, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effect of Covid pandemic 

message: I will add subsections under "developing countries" to talk about the potential (and challenges) of telehealth in developing countries, and also about ways some organizations are helping developing countries with internet access for consultations.Thomas Simbo K. (talk) 07:04, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose changes to the developing countries section 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technical and Scientific Communication

message: adding information about the future of telehealth JudyEditor2 (talk) 15:17, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied page to my personal sandbox 

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