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Old tech gets hip again.

M Menduno
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Telemedicine goes deep in the heart of Texas. Pagers get more persistent in St. Louis. And an e-network spans Spokane. From idea to method to gadget, innovative communication in today's digital economy typically involves all three. In each of our three profiles, organizations have pushed old boundaries--and bumped against new ones--in their search for a speedier response, better care, and lower costs. Each added value by putting existing technology to a new use, not the other way around. They all broke new ground by pairing developers with the people taking advantage of their innovations. And all agree: They're hardly finished yet.

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M Menduno. 1999. Old tech gets hip again.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10528581/

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