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Insurers encourage less-costly ER alternatives
Research shows that up to 20 percent of emergency room (ER) visits could be diverted to less-expensive retail sites, so health insurers like Anthem, UnitedHealth, and Kaiser Permanente are
BCBSMA offers indirect payments to ambulance providers
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is now writing checks to patients for the cost of their ambulance ride. So instead of paying for ambulance services provided by out-of-network companies, the
Telemedicine, remote monitoring aid care aboard offshore oil rigs
The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 and set off one of the worst environmental disasters in history is an extreme case, but workers on even the safest of offshore rigs are
First responders want more bandwidth for emergency communication
Groups representing public-safety organizations are pushing Congress to open up more radio spectrum for emergency communications so the nation can have enough bandwidth to create an interconnected,
Carolinas Healthcare System unifies communication with air ambulances
More and more states are making it illegal to text while driving, but a major health system in North and South Carolina is adding text capabilities--along with integrated voice communication and
A mobile health industry grows in San Diego
In one of this week's top stories , mHealth Initiative founder Peter Waegemann talks about the need for "an m-health community." He was talking about a community in the virtual sense, not in the
Florida EMS to transmit EKG readings from ambulances
A Florida emergency medical service soon will be able to transmit EKG readings from ambulances to hospital emergency departments, ideally cutting "door-to-balloon time" for patients experiencing
Inventor discusses the future of emergency mobile telemedicine
In our "Also Noted" section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic
Europe wants in-car emergency alert systems
European countries are under pressure to require new cars to carry onboard communication systems that automatically alert emergency services if a vehicle is involved in an accident. The European
