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Virtual Healthcare?

Posted September 01, 2010 7:49 AM

What impact will the effectiveness of telemonitoring and telemedicine in providing quality healthcare have on healthcare facility expansions? As chronically ill patients spend less time in hospitals, healthcare systems may need to refocus and reinvent themselves as smaller entities. How will virtual healthcare affect healthcare engineering?

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09/02/2010 3:55 AM

Telemedicine is going to play a vital role both in primary and secondary health care soon. Already in many countries have taken initiatives to introduce telemedicine in the health care system.
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