Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has begun a one-year pilot of a novel telemedicine program, one that will allow first responders to connect select patients to a doctor via an iPad rather than actually transporting them to the hospital.
"The benefits of telemedicine to the patient are innumerable, offering direct in-home access to a physician who can see them and talk to them...
Emergency Medical Technologies (EMT), maker of a wireless watch sensor called the Wriskwatch, recently published a single-blinded, phase I study in the journal Heart Rhythm to evaluate their device as a detector of pulselessness, reports iMedicalApps. The Wriskwatch includes a motion sensor and a pulse sensor designed to identify a patient in cardiac arrest, and features built-in fall detection...
