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Title: Telemedicine improves care for kids seen in rural ERs
Post by: riky on August 20, 2013, 09:00:18 AM
Telemedicine improves care for kids seen in rural ERs

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Telemedicine consults can help rural emergency room doctors provide better care to seriously ill or injured young patients, new research confirms. Rural hospitals and doctors' offices are increasingly using telemedicine - essentially, videoconferencing with another doctor from a remote location - to gain access to specialty care, Dr. James Marcin of the University of California Davis Children's Hospital in Sacramento, the senior author of the new study, told Reuters Health. ...

Source: Telemedicine improves care for kids seen in rural ERs (http://news.yahoo.com/telemedicine-improves-care-kids-seen-rural-ers-200642646.html)