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Information technologies are enabling all of medicine, bringing forth new opportunities and rapid change. Preventive medicine needs to incorporate these technologies, and in so doing evolve and integrate tele-preventive health into the corpus of traditional preventive medicine. Some new technologies are devices, to improve diagnosis and treatment; some are drugs and other pharmacological agents, for prevention and treatment; and some are information science tools, to improve the coordination, analysis and dissemination of preventive health information.