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Telehealth for People Living with and Beyond Cancer

November 9, 2020

Thanks to technology, there are a significant number of clinical services that can be conducted through telehealth. Telehealth enables doctors and other healthcare practitioners to provide clinical services from a distance through various forms of technology such as audio-visual communications technologies and devices that transmit data and images for remote monitoring and diagnostic evaluation. 

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