{"title":"A Statewide Telemedicine Network for Public Health in Brazil","authors":"R. Maia, A. V. Wangenheim, L. Nobre","doi":"10.1109/CBMS.2006.29","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The use of modern telecommunications technologies like telemedicine and the Internet is essential to decrease the centralization of the Brazilian's public healthcare service, and to improve the access to specialty care in small-tows and rural localities. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of a public statewide telemedicine network in the Brazilian 's State of Santa Catarina","PeriodicalId":208693,"journal":{"name":"19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06)","volume":"147 6-9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"32","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMS.2006.29","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The use of modern telecommunications technologies like telemedicine and the Internet is essential to decrease the centralization of the Brazilian's public healthcare service, and to improve the access to specialty care in small-tows and rural localities. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation of a public statewide telemedicine network in the Brazilian 's State of Santa Catarina