Telemedicine program demonstrates market value

Article Abstract:

Allina Health System Inc. has used a system called telemedicine to provide emergency medical service at three rural hospitals in Minnesota. Video conferencing equipment allows nurses at the hospitals to communicate with doctors at a bigger hospital 50 to 150 miles away. The system enables Allina to use distant physicians to handle night and weekend emergency cases at the rural hospitals, which were paying their doctors $80,000 to $150,000 a year for weekend service. The system saves the hospitals money.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing, General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, General medical & surgical hospitals, General Medical Hospitals, Video Conferencing Equip, Medicine, Telecommunications systems, Telecommunication systems, Allina Health System Inc., Teleconferencing systems

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Telemedicine on wheels

Article Abstract:

A combination of mobile medicine and telemedicine services, such as those offered by the Konawa Community Health Center in central Oklahoma, could help overcome the problem of delivering healthcare to rural communities, which is being eroded. The Konawa center offers services to the 20,000 residents of five rural communities in its region at nine weekly stops. Patients are reportedly pleased with the real-time interactive communication of the clinic, and revenues have surged.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext Svcs NEC, Communication services, not elsewhere classified, All Other Outpatient Care Centers, Neighborhood Health Centers, Innovations, Health care industry, Internet services, Community health services, Online information services, Interactive computer systems, Interactive media, Medicine, Rural, Rural medicine

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Pink slip for prescriptions

Article Abstract:

Traverse City, MI's Munson Medical Center introduced pink slips for physicians in 1996 because of medication orders that were illegible or incomplete. Errors have been reduced by 85% since the introduction of the pink slips. Their success is attributed to the embarrassing nature of the pink slips, they are given out within a 24 hour period of order acceptance and they offer concrete proof of errors.

Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Evaluation, Medication errors, Traverse City, Michigan

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