Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve health. Telehealth is a broader term. Which statement best captures their relationship?

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Telehealth is a broader umbrella for using telecommunications to support health care, while telemedicine refers specifically to the remote delivery of clinical care. Telemedicine covers activities like remote diagnosis, video visits, and patient monitoring conducted by clinicians. Telehealth includes all of those clinical services plus nonclinical uses such as provider education, training, administrative activities, and public health-related remote services. Because of that broader scope, telemedicine is best described as a subset within telehealth, not a separate specialty and not identical to telehealth. For example, a video visit with a physician is telemedicine, but remote patient education, telehealth-enabled administrative meetings, and public health outreach fall under telehealth but aren’t strictly telemedicine.