Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
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