The readings are then sent to a hospital computer via the mobile phone.
The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
Booking systems - with GPs arranging consultation times directly with the hospital via computer - will also be introduced from March 2002.
Julie Blackwood trained hospital personnel on computer programs for patient medical information.
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Even inputting data into the hospital's computer system can lead to mistakes.
Elmore says women should ask whether their hospital or mammography center uses computer-aided detection, as about 40 percent of U.S. centers do.
Ability to check out a computer in the hospital and do immediate follow up, real time, on the information provided, tests scheduled, etc.
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The court heard that after the fatal crash, Mr Webster was alleged to have said that he and his wife were out driving around midnight because he had to take computer work in to the hospital.
While the research could help inform practices in older NHS buildings, many newer UK hospital buildings feature no opening windows and complex computer-controlled ventilation systems.
It helps that in the face of the Y2K computer scare ahead of the year 2000, the hospital system replaced all its old legacy systems and now runs a well-integrated infrastructure.
The ongoing assessment and treatment by the paramedics could be available to the hospital-based team supporting them, and the documentation might not even require touching the computer because of voice navigation, voice recognition and noise-cancelling microphones developed for an environment as noisy as combat.
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