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levels of exercise. Monitoring could very well be used as a means of tracking per-
formance in this regard.
TOOLS OF HOME TELEHEALTH
There is a wide and growing range of telecommunications-ready tools readily
available for nurses’ and patients’ use in the home. These tools are examined in
more detail next.
Central Stations, Web Servers, and Portals
Central stations, Web servers, and portals are various terms presently used for
multifunctional telehealthcare platforms and application servers. The terms indi-
cate clinical management software programs that receive and display patients’
vital sig