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Digital healthcare in Latin America: the case of Brazil and Mexico

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 11
          November 2020
          142 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3431460
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