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A Cost-Effective Portable Telemedicine Kit for Use in Developing Countries

Adler, 2000

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Adler A
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Telemedicine is currently being used to bridge the physical distance between patients in remote areas and medical specialists around the world. Developing countries have had little experience or success with telemedicine, in part because of the prohibitively expensive …
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