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The digital divide is

a term used to describe the gulf between those who do and those who don't have access to modern information and communications technology, such as cell phones, smartphones, personal computers, and the Internet.

Tele health

employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related train- ing, and support healthcare administration .

The nonprofit organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

has a goal of providing children around the world with low-cost laptop computers to aid in their education.

Store-and-forward telemedicine

involves acquiring data, sound, images, and video from a patient and then transmitting everything to a medical specialist for later evaluation.

Remote monitoring (also called home monitoring)

involves the regular, ongoing measurement of an individual's vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate) and other health measures (e.g., glucose levels for a diabetic) and the transmission of this data to a healthcare provider

electronic health record (EHR)

is a computer-readable record of health-related information on an individual.

Telework (also known as telecommuting)

is a work arrangement in which an employee works away from the office—at home, at a client's office, in a hotel—literally, anywhere.

Telemedicine

is the component of telehealth that provides medical care to people at a location different from the healthcare providers.

Live telemedicine

requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at different sites at the same time and often involves a videoconference link between the two sites.

The Education Rate (E-Rate) program

was created through the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The full name of the program is The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund. E-Rate helps schools and libraries obtain broadband Internet services to advance the availability of educational and informational resources.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act)

was passed as part of the $787 billion 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act economic stimulus plan. Under this act, increased Medicaid or Medicare reimbursements will be made to doctors and hospitals that demonstrate "mean- ingful use" of EHR technolog