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Telemedicine: A Bridge to Unprivileged Populations

Telemedicine: A Bridge to Unprivileged Populations

Luis F. Herrera, Belinda del Carmen Carrion, Andrea Figueroa, Jesseyfer Guzmán, Salma Helena Armendariz de la Fuente, Jesus Garcia, Maria J. Muñoz
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781799887836|ISBN10: 1799887839|EISBN13: 9781799887843
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch001
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Herrera, Luis F., et al. "Telemedicine: A Bridge to Unprivileged Populations." Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine, edited by Mildred Lopez, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch001

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Herrera, L. F., Carrion, B. D., Figueroa, A., Guzmán, J., Armendariz de la Fuente, S. H., Garcia, J., & Muñoz, M. J. (2022). Telemedicine: A Bridge to Unprivileged Populations. In M. Lopez (Ed.), Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine (pp. 1-22). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch001

Chicago

Herrera, Luis F., et al. "Telemedicine: A Bridge to Unprivileged Populations." In Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine, edited by Mildred Lopez, 1-22. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch001

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Abstract

Using telemedicine systems, physicians around the world have been able to provide health access to their own communities and others abroad. Telemedicine is still a developing field in the health sciences, but much progress has been made with the advent of new communication technologies. Today, telemedicine offers an alternative to traditional physician consultations, especially for those patients with different needs. Patients with mobility issues, low socioeconomic standing, and far away from big cities have seen benefits from this form of patient care. Not only has telemedicine been able to just bridge these gaps, but it has also provided a new way for the international community of health practitioners to cooperate and aid areas in need of specialized care in the developing world. New cooperation programs between developed and developing countries have been developed to bring specialist knowledge to areas that otherwise would not have access to it. Telemedicine is a way to take care of patients in this technological area and perhaps will become the new standard of care.

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