The Eastern Québec Telepathology Network: a three-year experience of clinical diagnostic services
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The Eastern Québec Telepathology Network: a three-year experience of clinical diagnostic services
BACKGROUND The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network (called Réseau de Télépathologie de l'Est du Québec in French) was created to provide uniform diagnostic telepathology services in a huge territory with low population density. We report our first 3-year experience. METHODS The network was funded equally by the Québec ministry of Health and Canada Health Infoway, a federal telehealth funding...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diagnostic Pathology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1746-1596
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-9-s1-s1