The Digital Divide in Brazil and Barriers to Telehealth and Equal Digital Health Care: Analysis of Internet Access Using Publicly Available Data

Luis Filipe Nakayama   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   William Warr Binotti   ³ , MD ;   Naira Link Woite   ⁴ , MD ;   Chrystinne Oliveira Fernandes   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Pia Gabrielle Alfonso   ⁷ , MD ;   Leo Anthony Celi   ^{2, 8, 9} , MPH, MD ;   Caio Vinicius Regatieri   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, São Paulo Federal University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

² Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

³ Department of Ophthalmology, New England Eye Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁵ Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Informatics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

⁷ College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manilla, Philippines

⁸ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard TH Chan, Boston, MA, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States