Telemedicine in Pakistan – Future of Healthcare Services
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51985/JBUMDC2022124Abstract
“Telemedicine is the practice of medicine over a distance,
in which interventions, diagnoses, therapeutic decisions,
and subsequent treatment recommendations are based on
patient data, documents and other information transmitted
through telecommunication systems”
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