“Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. “He’s belly-breathing,” the emergency-room doctor said worriedly — Riley’s little abdomen was markedly rising and falling with each breath, a sign of respiratory distress.
In most emergency rooms, the doctor would grill Mom: Has he ever been X-rayed? Do you remember what it showed? But in the new all-digital Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, doctors just clicked on a COW — a “computer on wheels” that rolls to each patient’s side. Up popped every test and X-ray the 6-month-old has ever had.”
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Lauran Neergaard, MSNBC, 6 July 2009
