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South Shore Hospital using new technology to spot and prevent heart attacks
| . DOTmed::Language=HASH(0x55fe68bb86d0)->translator()->translate(text=>'An Interview with') .qq| Michael Johns of DOTmed.com, Inc. | August 05, 2013
DOTmed: Tell us about this purchase. South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, MA is using new technology to spot heart attacks even before patients arrive. As first reported in the PartiotLedger.com, South Shore Hospital used $50,000 from donations to get the LifeNet system up and running.
Before LifeNet, the hospital tried a variety of methods by which paramedics would manually send information yet the information often lacked clarity or took too long to be useful.
The LifeNet system allows portable EKG machines, carried by paramedics, to wirelessly transmit real-time images of a patient’s heart function to doctors at the hospital.
With the new system, doctors receive crystal clear images on a computer in the emergency department and on their smart phones, Dr. Jason Tracy, the hospital’s chief of emergency medicine, said.
DOTmed: Any final thoughts? The LifeNet system allows the hospital to respond the level of severity of an incoming patient and allocate the appropriate resources.
The hospital expects to outfit additional ambulances in the near future.
