Tele-medicine: a new promised land, just to save resources?

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¹ Fondazione Volterra Ricerche, Volterra, Italy nico.ambrosino@gmail.com.
² Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Dept, Medical Faculty Sebelas Maret University, Dr Moewardi General Hospital, Solo, Central Jawa, Indonesia.

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. 2017 May 25;49(5):1700410.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.00410-2017. Print 2017 May.

¹ Fondazione Volterra Ricerche, Volterra, Italy nico.ambrosino@gmail.com.
² Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Dept, Medical Faculty Sebelas Maret University, Dr Moewardi General Hospital, Solo, Central Jawa, Indonesia.

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