emocha Mobile Health’s video technology, designed to help people in tuberculosis treatment, is expanding into North Carolina.

The Baltimore-based health IT company said its platform will be used by Mecklenburg County Public Health, which is the public health department for the one-million-person county that includes Charlotte and suburbs.

“Mecklenburg has the greatest number of TB cases in the state and is the first county in North Carolina to adopt this technology,” emocha CEO Sebastian Seiguer said. In all, 34 of the state’s 213 cases were reported in the county in 2017. “This is a significant innovation for the whole state as it really advances traditional care and treatment plan for TB.”

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