| LAKE VILLAGE -- Rep.
Lindbergh Thomas of Grady participated in a demonstration Tuesday, September 10, of
high-tech medical consultations that link local doctors and their patients with
specialists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock. The demonstration was at Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village.
The doctors conducted long-distance consultations in high-risk obstetrics and dermatology. |
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Rep. Lindbergh Thomas of Grady (front row, left) observes a demonstration of telemedicine
consultations September 9 at Chicot Memorial Hospital in Lake Village. Vice Chancellor
Charles Cranford of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences gave a briefing.
(UAMS) Click on image for print-quality resolution.
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| During
such UAMS "telemedicine" consultations, physicians in local communities examine
or interview 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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