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Wireless video link saves newborn from costly, risky transport

“A pediatric cardiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., is said to be the first to deliver a remote, real-time diagnosis of a newborn baby’s heart murmur. With the help of a wireless, mobile camera attached to an ultrasound machine, and linked by a and wireless videoconferencing device, Dr. Scott Fletcher viewed the EKG of a baby 115 miles away at Faith Regional Health Services, a rural facility in Norfolk, Neb.”

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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare, 3 November 2009

3 November 2009 | Categories: News | Country: | Tags: , , ,
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