Should a hospital ED open an urgent care center?

par Lauren Dubinsky, Senior Reporter | December 14, 2016

From the December 2016 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

Smartphones are also being used to improve emergency care in the case of heart attacks, as well as cardiac arrests and strokes. The American Heart Association published a scientific statement in the journal Circulation in June that reviewed studies to determine the effectiveness of these technologies. A Japanese study found that a hospital saved 1.5 minutes when ED personnel sent photos of 12-lead ECGs to interventional cardiologists with smart-phones, compared to when they faxed that information.

Smartphone apps are being used by clinicians to view brain images of stroke patients, and videoconference neurologists to evaluate the patients remotely. “With all of these technologies, the common focus is quicker and more accurate diagnoses,” says Laskaris. “The whole key is to get the patient out of the hospital as quickly as possible, and be able to treat them as effectively as possible.”

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