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The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging publichealth moment? What can we expect to hear relevant to the publichealth challenge?
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TIME magazine’s coverage of how CES featured telehealth covered four stories including Abbott’s Neurosphere, Jasper Health’s oncology platform, EarlySense InSight at Home, and BioIntelliSense biosticker and biobutton devices for remote patient monitoring. CES recognized OMRON’s U.S.
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have significant agricultural interests, the other factors outweigh these regions’ ability to get healthy food to the tables of citizens, as well as health citizens’ not consuming those foods in their daily diets. In so doing, regions would enhance publichealth, stronger local economies, and more resilient ecosystems.
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