Marcelo Antônio Cartaxo Queiroga Lopes et al. Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira Alberto Amaral Júnior Eitel Santiago de Brito Pereira
The remarkable advance in technology has caused a new social revolution impacting all areas of knowledge, modifying traditions and practices that were consecrated centuries ago. Advances in informatics and telecommunications with practical application in various sciences are eloquent examples of such transformation.
In medicine, this progress has brought up extraordinary advances in diagnosis and therapy, since the combination of new medical technologies and efficient communication media has bequeathed us telemedicine, which has been practiced for more than two decades with great success, opening the doors for solutions such as a telematic transmission of a simple electrocardiogram to remotely performing robotic surgeries.
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