Article Excerpt: A telemedicine-based disaster-response system patterned after Avera Health’s eCare platform has been successfully tested in the Ukraine, and could soon be used in hotspots and remote locations around the globe.
NATO conducted a test of the portable medical kits, involving some 1,100 rescue workers from 34 countries, in Lviv, Ukraine, this past September. Called the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) telemedicine project, it enabled rescue workers to assess, diagnose and treat patients in the field and communicate in real time with healthcare providers.
“The idea is to develop a multinational capacity for disaster response,” Raed Arafat, Secretary of State in the Department of Emergency Situations of the Romanian Ministry of Interior and Director of the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) telemedicine project, said in a press release supplied by NATO.
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