1. A distributed vehicle health management system comprising: a vehicle-based diagnostic processor executing diagnostic routines in a vehicle, the diagnostic routines generating diagnostic data; a processor-based device executing advanced vehicle health management routines, the processor-based device determining a state of health of a component as a function of the diagnostic data; a telematics device communicating at least one of a state of health data and diagnostic data from the vehicle; and a remote entity disposed remotely from the vehicle, the remote entity receiving data via the telematics device, the data being a selective subset of data output from at least one of the diagnostic processor and processor-based device, the remote entity executing calibration routines as a function of the data received by the vehicle for calibrating at least one of diagnostic routines and health management routines.