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Expanding Primary Care Access: A Telehealth Success Story

2017; American Academy of Family Physicians; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1370/afm.2086

1544-1717

Marcelo Rodrigues Gonçalves, Roberto Nunes Umpierre, Otávio Pereira D’Ávila, Natan Katz, Sotero Serrate Mengue, Ana Célia da Silva Siqueira, Vinícius Coelho Carrard, Carlos André Aita Schmitz, Cynthia Goulart Molina Bastos, Dimitris Rucks Varvaki Rados, Milena Rodrigues Agostinho, Elise Botteselle de Oliveira, Rudi Roman, Josué Basso, Juliana Nunes Pfeil, Marcos Vinícius Ambrosini Mendonça, Rafael Gustavo Dal Moro, Timothy L Frank, P.L. Stürmer, Erno Harzheim,

Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Our challenge was to structure a telemedicine framework that is capable of expanding access to services and testing while increasing the quality of the services provided. In this report, we describe the development of a telemedicine project in Brazil and its impact on increasing access to specialist