Abkürzungen, die im Zusammenhang mit Telemedizin oft verwendet werden:

• AIM (Advanced Informatics in Medicine)
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
• ATM (Asynchronous Transmission Mode)
• AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph)
• BPS (Bits Per Second)
• CD-ROM (Compact Disk/Read Only Memory)
• CHIN (Community Health Information Network)
• CIS (Clinical Information System)
• CPR (Computed-based Patient Record)
• CPU (Central Processing Unit)
• DAX (Digital Exchange)
• FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
• FEST (Framework for European Telemedicine Services)
• GBS (Gigabits per second)
• HIS (Hospital Information Systems)
• HL-7 (Health Level-7 Data Communications Protocol)
• HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
• ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
• KBS (Kilobits (1000 bits) per second)
• LAN (Local Area Network)
• MODEM (Modulator/De-modulator)
• MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)
• PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System)
• PAL (Phase Alteration by Line)
• RIS (Radiology Information System)
• WAN (Wide Area Network)
• WWW (World Wide Web)