Digital Images Unleashed
Later this month, Partners HealthCare System Inc.
will begin testing cell phones equipped with digital cameras so nurses can
transmit digital images of homebound patients' skin lesions, such as pressure
sores, to a remote Boston-area office. There, nurses trained in enterostomal
therapy, or wound care, will be able to examine the images and recommend
treatments to the field nurses. The new telemedicine system will extend care to
many more patients than Partners HealthCare would have otherwise been able to
treat.
Posted: Mon - July 11, 2005 at 09:15 PM