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The Telegraph and the Beginnings of Telemedicine in Australia
Robert H. Eikelboom
67 - 72
10.3233/978-1-61499-152-6-67
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 182: Global Telehealth 2012
Abstract

The history of telemedicine is at times presented to commence in the 20th century. Events in Central Australia in 1874 show that the history goes further back, when the newly constructed telegraph played an important telemedicine role not only in enabling care for a wounded person, but also in uniting a dying man with his wife 2000 kilometres away. Innovation with the tools at hand has proven to be effective to bridge the tyranny of distance in the delivery of health care.

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