Global public health and the information superhighway
- 25 June 1994
- Vol. 308 (6945) , 1651-1652
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.308.6945.1651
Abstract
Discussions about the applications of networking to health care have typically focused on the potential of networking to transmit data (in particular, images) and to reduce the cost of health care. But the vast potential of telecommunications to prevent disease has gone undiscussed.Keywords
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