Bridgwater deploys telemedicine ECG software
Bridgwater Community Hospital has deployed a new telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch to provide expert cardiology reporting for patients attending its Urgent Treatment Centre. The centre, based in Somerset, provides unscheduled care for almost 20,000 patients per year and chose to use the telemedicine software to help reduce pressures on healthcare providers within the […]
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Air Passenger’s Remote ECG Makes History
The makers of Tempus 2000 remote monitoring equipment and bmi claimed a place in telemedicine and aviation history when a passenger became the first traveller on a commercial airline to have an electrocardiogram (ECG) recorded in flight and transmitted via satellite to ground-based US physicians. The passenger, Stephen Clarke of Congleton, Cheshire, became ill on […]
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