By Neil Versel – While many in mobile health look at ways to get personal monitoring devices into the home to help manage diseases, several figures with deep backgrounds in trauma care are trying to commercialize a system to prevent death from heart attacks and stroke. Central to this effort is Roger Lee Heath, an […]
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare by Neil Versel November 24, 2009 — 2:19pm ET In our “Also Noted” section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic external defibrillator. Who is Heath and why is he someone to keep an eye […]
Most Ambulances May Use Telemedicine in the Future
November 19, 2009
breaking news, EMS Telemedicine
Hospitals and Health Networks reports “Mobile Video Systems Link ED” by Neil Versel “Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Washington, D.C., says residents of major metropolitan areas should expect most ambulances to have mobile video and data links within a decade.” “I think five years is more reasonable,” says Rifat Latifi, M.D., director […]