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Telemedicine refers to the remote communication of information to facilitate care and treatment involving voices, images, elements of the patient’s record or possibly control of a robot (e.g. a surgical one). Telemedicine is an application of information technologies aimed at improving access to care, ranging from data transfers (medical imaging or other patient data, distance education, etc.) to the practitioner’s direct intervention on the patient. The location is no longer the basis for medical practice or patient follow-up. It is no longer a question of displacing the practitioner and/or patient, but of moving the information and making it available in the appropriate time and place.