Telemedicine in low-resource settings

Affiliations

¹ Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway , Tromsø , Norway ; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø , Tromsø , Norway.
² Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières , Paris , France ; Department of Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine (EA 4569), Paris Descartes University , Paris , France.

Richard Wootton et al. Front Public Health. 2015.

. 2015 Jan 21:3:3.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00003. eCollection 2015.

¹ Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway , Tromsø , Norway ; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø , Tromsø , Norway.
² Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières , Paris , France ; Department of Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine (EA 4569), Paris Descartes University , Paris , France.

No abstract available

Keywords: editorial; health care; low-resource settings; telehealth; telemedicine.

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