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Telehealth's role expanding in disaster, ER relief efforts
We reported a few weeks ago on telehealth finding new utility in healthcare, completely apart from the usual physician-to-patient video-conference. Nearly two months later, telehealth's evolution
Robot ER staff could speed triage
Within the next five years, robots could help speed the ER triage process, according to Mitch Wilkes, associate director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and associate professor of electrical
Liability questions from answering services bring another 'Duh!' moment
Is it just me, or have a lot of you been saying, "Duh!" in reaction to healthcare news? In case you missed it in the pre-Thanksgiving madness, I gave a big "Duh!" in FierceMobileHealthcare last week
Hospital wireless networks enable fast physician response
Health IT still may be slow to catch on, but rare is the hospital today that doesn't have broad wireless infrastructure to enable the use of mobile devices, give Internet access to patients and
Mobile technology could help contain a flu pandemic
With wireless technology so ubiquitous in society today, you'd think that someone would figure out a way to set up field clinics and triage units to respond to, say, an outbreak of the H1N1 virus,
Teletrauma care goes mobile
As camera phones have become widespread, many emergency medical technicians have taken to snapping photos of wounds and forwarding the images to hospitals so clinical teams could be ready when the
