In telehealth terminology, which term is used for the site from which the clinician provides services?

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In telehealth architecture, this question hinges on the hub-and-spoke model. The central site that houses the clinician and the telemedicine equipment, connecting to multiple remote locations, is called the hub. That hub delivers the clinical services to the remote spoke sites, which are the remote clinics or locations where patients are located. The other terms describe the remote sites or other aspects of the setup (for example, spokes are the remote sites; distance or distant site can refer to where the clinician is in some contexts, but the standard hub-and-spoke terminology centers on the hub as the central service-providing site). So the site from which the clinician provides services is the hub.