See: “Distance Marketing of Insurance Products.”
Insurance Encyclopedia
Telemedicine
1. Use of telecommunication systems in real-time or near real-time to transmit medical images and information to distant professionals for purposes of diagnosis and medical care (e.g., scanned images, direct digital capture [DDC], interactive television [IATV], and high-definition television [HDTV]). 2. Professional services given to a patient through an interactive telecommunications system by a practitioner at a distant site.
Telemetry bed
Bed that is able produce wireless or wired electronic transmission to a remote location for continuous monitoring of the patient’s condition.
Telemetry unit
Section in a hospital facility that has telemetry beds such as intensive care unit.
Telephone triage system
See: nurse triage .
teletypewriter (TTY)
Communication device used by people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a severe speech impairment. A TTY consists of a keyboard, display screen, and modem. Messages travel over regular telephone lines. Individuals who do not have a TTY can communicate with a TTY user through a message relay center (MRC). An MRC has TTY operators available to send and interpret TTY messages.
Television Insurance
The Policy covers accidental external damage and/or damage to television apparatus by Fire, short-circuiting, flood, hurricane, bursting and overflowing of water tanks, theft, riot, strike, terrorism, earthquake, Fire and shock. The Policy also covers legal liability towards third parties as also loss of or damage to the property belonging to or in the custody of the insured by breakage or collapse of the aerial fittings or mast of the apparatus.