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patients while specialists at UAMS observe on television screens. The physicians and
patients on both ends are able to see and hear each other. The service by the UAMS Rural Hospital Program involves interactive
compressed video. Chicot Memorial is the second hospital in Arkansas to conduct real-time
fetal ultrasounds via interactive compressed video and also store and forward the images
over interactive video and data lines.
UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., briefed legislators
and local officials before the demonstration.
Robby Reddish, chief executive officer of Chicot Memorial,
and Charles Hicks, M.D., chief of staff, hosted the program. Becky Hall, director and Jana
Clark and Ramona Taylor, all of the UAMS Delta Area Health Education Center (AHEC),
coordinated the briefing and demonstration.
The UAMS telemedicine program connects UAMS specialists
with 38 health care sites around Arkansas, including all six AHECs, 17 rural hospitals,
three community health centers, eight universities, four independent sites and five UAMS
campus sites.
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Contact:
Leslie W. Taylor
Phone: 501-686-8998
Wireless: 501-951-7260
e-mail: taylorlesliew@uams.edu
Elizabeth F. Shores
Phone: 501-686-8394
e-mail: shoreselizabethf@uams.edu
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