General Devices News-Bits
• NPR Reports on Tucson's ER-Link National Public Radio reports on the first calls performed with City of Tucson's ER-Link!
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• Tucson Channel 4 ER-Link Video Interview "ER-Link is the first operational EMS telemedicine system in the country and it’s right here in Tucson. The Tucson Fire Department made the announcement back in 2000. The video cameras are being installed on the inside and outside of its ambulances. Doctors say, being able to see the patient…”, Tuscon Channel 4 Reporter click here to view video
• Amazon Swim: EMS Telemedicine From Tucson to Amazon Medical needs for Amazon River swimmer to be provided by General Devices e-Bridge EMS Telemedicine system. Dr.Rifat Latifi from Tucson's University Medical Center will be "virtually present" in Amazon and use real-time images and streaming physiologic data to care for swimmer. click here to view more
• Tucson One Step Closer David Ridings, Assistant Chief, Tucson Fire Department, reports that the Phase I system testing for Tucson's ER-Link has now been completed . click here to view more
• ER-Link makes the news: ER-Link was featured on Tucson’s Channel 12 ER-Link was featured on Tucson's Channel 12, the highly acclaimed City News Station. click here to view more
• e-Bridge featured at Arizona's SATCOM Conference. Arizona's trauma conference featured a demonstration by Assistant Chief Dave Ridings click here to view more
• General Devices Announces Interoperability Between Its Rosetta™ And CAREpoint™ Product Lines And The Philips HeartStart MRx™ Monitor/Defibrillator Now 12-lead ECGs from the Philips MRx may be sent via Rosetta! click here to view more
• 2006 NAEMSP Meeting’s System Showcase Session Features Telemedicine By CAREpoint and Rosetta A well attended System Showcase session at the 2006 NAEMSP Meeting in Tucson featured a preview of the EMS Telemedicine/Telepresence system soon to be deployed in Tucson, Arizona. Featured speakers were Dr. Cai Glushak of the University of Chicago, Dr. Rifat Latifi of the University of Arizona, and Dr. Raymond Fowler, Deputy Medical Director of Dallas EMS. click here to view more
• First Operational EMS Telemedicine System in Country CAREpoint and Rosetta-VC will be used in what will soon be the first operational EMS telemedicine system in country, Tucson Arizona’s ER-Link system. click here to view more
• Surgeon General Witnesses EMS Telemedicine Preview at the "Eagles" Meeting An advanced EMS Telemedicine system was previewed at the "Gathering of Eagles" Conference in Dallas, Texas on Feb 18, 2005. In a demonstration entitled "Live from Garland", Dr. Raymond Fowler presented a prototype of the telemedicine system currently under development at General Devices. He displayed real-time video images, digital voice communications and physiologic data sent from an ambulance in Garland Texas to a CAREpoint Workstation in Dallas. The project was a joint effort by General Devices, Philips Medical Systems, Motorola, the University of Texas Southwestern, and the University of Chicago. Dr. Fowler showed how such a system would enhance EMS patient care as well as address training and medical/legal issues. Dr. Richard Carmona, the Surgeon General of the United States, attended the demonstration. click here to view more
• Recorded Refusal: EMS Telemedicine System Previewed May issue of EMS Magazine commentary about the Rosetta VC and future of EMS communications. click here to view interview
• Laura Eggers of University of Chicago Interviewed by EMS Magazine April issue of EMS Magazine includes an interview with Laura Eggers about their experiences with CAREpoint. click here to view interview
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• General Devices and Zoll Medical Corporation partner for improved communications & information management On July 5th, 2005 General Devices and Zoll Medical Corporation announced an agreement under which the Zoll M Series™ Monitor/Defibrillator will be interoperable with the General Devices’ CAREpoint™ EMS Workstation and Rosetta™ family of data translators and communications interfaces. Users will be able to choose from a variety of communications means (cellphones, UHF, VHF & other radios) to send directly to the CAREpoint EMS Workstation or other systems.
“The principal goal of General Devices is to provide improvements in interoperability, reliability and speed when sending physiologic monitoring information from the field to hospitals and to improve the ability of hospital personnel to utilize this data. We are very pleased to be working with Zoll, a recognized leader of therapeutic and diagnostic devices, to make the best use of new technologies to improve patient care and set the stage for the implementation of new and advanced technologies” commented Michael Smith, President of General Devices.
• General Devices has been selected by the University of Chicago to provide equipment for a National Institute of Health funded study (N01-LM-3-3508) entitled "Application Of Advanced Network Infrastructure In Health And Disaster Management". The objective of this study is to explore the use of still and moving images sent from the field for tele-collaboration applications in both day-to-day patient care and disaster management. The study's principal investigator, Dr. Jonathan Silverstein, intends to utilize both conventional and advanced means of wireless transmission for this purpose. The Access Grid will also be utilized in the study. The CAREpoint EMS Workstations now in use at U of C's ED are to be used to receive, display, archive and forward these images.
• Northwest Community EMS - Northwest Community Hospital EMS is now utilizing the first GEMSCOM™ NetManager to permit field professionals to patch themselves in just seconds to any hospital resource in the system. The system covers the majority of Metro Chicago's northwest suburbs. To view this setup click NorthWest.
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• Regional Users Listings - R. Lee Heath, a General Devices Agent, has released to the web a detailed list of General Devices users in the upper Midwest and Southwest U.S. The list is updated at regular intervals.
• New Cook County Hospital Deploys CAREpoint - One of the world's most advanced emergency care facilities is using CAREpoint. more...
• New Articles Related to CAREpoint! - A feature article in the September/October issue of EF&P (Emergency,Fire/Rescue & Police), entitled "The Role New Technologies Play in Improving EMS" discusses the importance of new technologies in EMS and illustrates this by describing the role CAREpoint plays in improving communications, record keeping, paper-less call management, QA activities, obtaining drug, hazmat and other information, and bio-telemetry. Be sure to read this article.
CAREpoint was the subject of a feature article in the August issue of Public Safety Product News. The article fully describes CAREpoint's many features and discusses the role it plays in improving hospital-based activities, how
this affects future EMS activities, and the implications to a modern EMS system.
• RX for ECG Artifact Article - READ THIS!! Suggested by several coordinators. A 1984 article that you
never read that deals with a longstanding issue - Bad ECG Traces. To view this article now click Rx for ECG Artifact.
• Ocean City EMS first to deploy Rosetta™ system in Maryland - February, 2002. Ocean City EMS took delivery of 10 Rosetta-Lt™ data translators, which the progressive agency will use to transmit 12-Lead reports acquired by their LP12's. The Rosetta-Lts plug into their ambulance UHF radios for transmitting over Maryland's EMRC radio system. Rosetta-Rx™ Receiving units were also installed at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin and at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. The Rosetta™ system will give the pre-hospital care providers an important piece of information to help in getting the patient to the appropriate facility.
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