Joint plans agreed between health boards and the ambulance service to reduce ambulance waits outside hospitals.
Phillips said more health care is happening outside hospitals, putting more of a burden on outpatient pharmacists.
That means advanced-life support ambulances with patients who are stable are referred to the next closest hospital, no more than five minutes away, Zich said, and transfers are not accepted from outside hospitals.
The portability of the device means it is likely to have a use outside hospitals - allowing scanning to be done wherever its needed, in the home or perhaps for the military - on the battlefield.
There have been many reports of ambulances queuing up outside Welsh hospitals in recent weeks.
Figures obtained by BBC Wales show ambulances spent almost 55, 000 hours waiting outside Welsh hospitals in six months.
She said more services needed to be offered outside of hospitals, with paediatricians working more closely with GPs.
No records are kept of circumcisions performed outside of hospitals and there is no regulation of ritual practitioners.
Nationwide, according the their study, 300, 000 people suffer heart attacks outside of hospitals, and a remarkable 90% of them die.
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But he said even where clinicians knew that better care could be provided outside of hospitals, and politicians accepted this privately, the public debate had not helped individuals understand that.
He said the Welsh government review of the service would probably look at why ambulances are sometimes forced to wait long periods outside busy hospitals with patients waiting to be admitted.
All these heart attacks took place outside of hospitals.
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They want to stop cancer patients having to travel for treatment at hospitals outside South Lakeland.
From there, they were flown to hospitals outside the zone threatened by Gustav.
Outside China, hospitals are struggling to get funds for diagnostic machinery such as CAT scanners, MERs and the like.
Outside of its hospitals, Novant also encourages doctors affiliated with the health system to participate in a diabetes-recognition program, conducted by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit health group.
It also said poorly defined contracts at hospitals using outside cleaning companies added to the problem.
In Germany, for example, over half of hospitals are now outside the public sector.
If not, they will congregate outside the entrance to the hospitals.
It uses four different measures, including deaths after surgery and among those with low-risk conditions, to help assess which hospitals are falling outside of what would be expected.
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The Affordable Care Act calls for creating 600 additional primary-care residencies in community health centers, outside of Medicare's funding for teaching hospitals.
Despite defibrillators and other modern gear, survival rates after cardiac arrest are around 30% inside hospitals and 5% or so outside of them.
Convinced the problem was rooted in poor management, Kenagy, now fully recovered, became an administrator at a Catholic health care system outside of Seattle that tried to integrate doctors and hospitals into one seamless process.
"We're looking at a situation where you go to a doctor and your data can be exchanged with other doctors, other hospitals, or even government agencies inside or outside your state, " she says.
To contain polio, hospitals confined children like Tenley, allowing only minimal contact with the outside world.
The society said most of the hundreds of millions of pounds currently spent on dementia in hospitals could be more effectively invested in workforce development and community services outside the hospital.
This approach could work well for hospitals seeking to share data and increase coordination with business and clinical partners outside the four walls of their own organizations.
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Families living outside the capital bring their children there in the hope that it will prove better supplied than smaller regional hospitals.
Given a straight choice between district hospitals continuing to offer the same range of services as they do now, or patients travelling outside their local patch to find an improved quality of service, a shade under three quarters opt to keep services local. 23% opt for better services further from home.
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