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Enhance health care
delivery and health education to rural populations.
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Reduce or eliminate
the burden and costs of travel for patients and health care
providers.
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Enhance access to
specialists for geographically or medically isolated patient
populations.
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Provide access to
specialists for primary care providers. Encourage physicians,
nurses and other health care professionals to establish practices
in underserved and rural areas.
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Reduce professional
isolation and encourage professional collegial relationships for
remote health care providers.
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Provide ongoing
training and continuing education for health care providers.
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Extend the
expertise of specialists to broader geographic regions.
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Maximize the
allocation of scarce health care resources.
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Support and promote
the economic development of the State of Michigan.
