Telemedicine Is Revolutionizing Prison Health Care

Improvements in access enabled by telemedicine can literally be a matter of life and death

Lux Alptraum
Elemental
Published in
8 min readJan 3, 2020

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OOver the past few years, telemedicine — a term broadly used to describe any method of remotely accessing medical care, including over the phone, through email, or via video chat — has gone from a sci-fi proposition to an…

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Lux Alptraum
Elemental

OneZero columnist, Peabody-nominated producer, and the author of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal. http://luxalptraum.com