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Response to Delamater’s Comment on “A Conceptual Framework for Quality Healthcare Accessibility: A Scalable Approach for Big Data Technologies”

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  1. Department of Information and Technology Management, Sykes College of Business, University of Tampa, 401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL, 33606, USA

    Miloslava Plachkinova

  2. Department of Information Systems, College of Business, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Business Building, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    Au Vo

  3. Center for Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, 150 E. 10th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, USA

    Brian Hilton

  4. Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 92834-6848, USA

    Rahul Bhaskar

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Plachkinova, M., Vo, A., Hilton, B. et al. Response to Delamater’s Comment on “A Conceptual Framework for Quality Healthcare Accessibility: A Scalable Approach for Big Data Technologies”. Inf Syst Front 20, 311–314 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-018-9842-y

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