Telemedicine prescribes cure for distant connections

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Telemedicine

Telemedicine embodies modern-day risk-reward for personal data. It holds the promise of greater personal contact where healthcare providers are scarce. Yet, mobile health encounters daily threats from hackers or simple mishandling of personally identifiable information. Dr. Stephanie Miaco regularly confronts these challenges. The psychiatrist from Dumaguete City, the Philippines, and a faculty member of the Silliman University Medical School advocates in mental health and how to improve the delivery of these services for everyone. “Telemedicine improves our reach as physicians and affects our practices,” she said. Miaco described telemedicine as the delivery of clinical services at a distance, broken down…...

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Jim Katzaman Jim Katzaman is a manager at Largo Financial Services. A writer by trade, he graduated from Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He enlisted in the Air Force and served for 25 years in public affairs – better known in the civilian world as public relations. He also earned an Associate’s Degree in Applied Science in Public Affairs. Since retiring, he has been a consultant and in the federal General Service as a public affairs specialist. He also acquired life and health insurance licenses, which resulted in his present affiliation with Largo Financial Services. In addition to expertise in financial affairs, he gathers the majority of his story content from Twitter chats. This has led him to publish about a wide range of topics such as social media, marketing, sexual harassment, workplace trends, productivity and financial management. Medium has named him a top writer in social media.