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- Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
- Algorithm
- Analog
- Annotation
- Application Sharing
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
- Audio
- Bandwidth
- Beam splitter
- Bit
- Bit depth
- Bits per second (BPS)
- bps
- BRI
- Bridge
- Broadband
- Bursty data
- Byte
- Camera control
- Care Coordination General Telehealth (CCGT)
- Care Coordination Home Telehealth (CCHT)
- Care Coordination Store and Forward Telehealth (CCSF)
- CCD
- CCGT
- CCHT
- CCITT
- CCSF
- Charge coupled device (CCD)
- Chip
- Chrominance
- Common Intermediate Format (CIF)
- Ciné loop
- C-mount
- Coder-Decoder (CODEC)
- Component video
- Compression ratio
- Continuous Presence
- CSU/DSU
- Dave Newman, RN
- Desktop Video Conferencing (DVC)
- Digital
- Digital camera
- Document camera
- Downspeeding
- DS3
- DSU
- Duplex audio
- Echo cancellation
- Encryption
- Endpoint
- Ethernet
- Ethernet Switch
- Facility Telehealth Coordinator
- Facility Telehealth Technician
- FCIF
- FDA 510K approval
- Firewall
- fps
- Frame grabber
- Frame rate
- Frame relay
- Frames per second (FPS)
- Freeze frame
- Frequency response
- Full motion video
- Full-duplex
- Full-motion
- Gatekeeper
- Gateway
- Ghosting
- Graphic equalizer
- Graphics stand
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Gray scale
- GUI
- H.26, H.256, H.261, H.320, H.323, H.324, H.263, H.242…
- HDTV
- Health Buddy
- High pass filter
- HIS
- HL7
- Home page
- Hot link
- HTML
- Hub
- Hypertext link
- IATV
- IEC(IXC)
- Image capture
- Image management
- IMUX
- INMARSAT
- Integrator
- Interexchange carrier
- Interface
- Intranet
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
- ISO
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- ITU-T Standards
- ITV
- JPEG
- KB
- Kilobits per second (Kbps)
- LAN
- Laser digitizer
- LATA
- Lavaliere
- Leased 56
- LEC
- Leveling
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- Lossless compression
- Lossy compression
- Low pass filter
- Luminance
- Lux
- MAN
- MB
- Megabits per second (Mbps)
- MCU
- Mic level inputs
- Microphone audio overlays playing tape audio
- Microsoakable camera
- Mini-PACS
- Mixer
- Mobile Telehealth Clinic Coordinator
- Mobile Telehealth Clinic Health Technician
- Mobile Telehealth Clinic RN (Registered Nurse)
- Modem
- Modem access for remote diagnostic support
- MPEG
- Multiplexer
- Multipoint control unit
- Multipoint Videoconference
- Network
- Network interface
- National Television Standards Committee (NTSC)
- OC3
- Ocular tube adapter
- OEM
- Packet
- Packet Switching
- PACS
- Paging
- Phases Alternate Line (PAL)
- Pan
- PBX
- PC
- Peripheral devices
- Picture in picture (PIP)
- Pixel
- Pixelated
- Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)
- Point to Point Conference
- Presets
- PRI
- Primary user interface device
- Printer interface
- Protocol
- PSTN
- PTZ
- Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ)
- Px64
- QCIF
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- RAID
- Raster
- RBOC
- Real Time
- Resolution
- Red, green, blue (RBG)
- RIS
- RJ-11 jack
- Rocky Mountain Telehealth Training Center
- Rollabout unit
- Room unit
- Router
- S&F
- Scan line raster
- SECAM
- Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
- Slow-scan
- Spooling
- Standards
- Store-and-forward (SAF)
- Stored image management
- S-video
- Switch
- Switched 56
- Switched line or network
- Synchronization
- Synchronous Communication
- T.120
- T-1
- T1
- Tandberg 1700
- Tandberg 500 MXP
- Tandberg 550 MXP
- Tandberg 770/880/990 MXP
- Tandberg 770/880/990 MXP
- Tariff
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
- TELCO
- Telecommunications
- Teleconferencing/Videoconferencing
- Telehealth
- Telehealth Technical Service Lead
- TelehealthTimes
- Telemedicine
- Telepresenter (Patient Presenter)
- Teleradiology
- Teleretinal Imaging (TRI)
- Thumbnails
- Tiling
- Tilt
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
- Transmission rate
- TSS
- Twisted pair
- Universal C-mount
- Unsharp Mask
- URL
- VAR
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- VCR record source control
- VCR Simultaneous
- Video format
- Video on Demand (VOD)
- Video output
- Video Phone
- Videophone
- VoD
- Voice Activated Switching (VAS)
- Voice Over IP (VOIP)
- Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
- Wide Area Network (WAN)
- Wavelets
- Webcam
- White Boarding
- Water Boarding
- Whiteboard
- Windowing
- WTF
- VA
- Zoom