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Article: Wireless Phones in Busy ER Answer the Call to Low Cost Care.(Jefferson Hospital, Pittsburgh, deployment of Nortel's Companion wireless phones)(Company Operations)
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- Health Management Technology
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Advantages add up: decreased patient delay, less stress and more productivity.
Jefferson Hospital, the cornerstone Pittsburgh, PA's South Hills Health System, maintains a 24-hour emergency department that ks as one of the busiest in the western part of the state. Emergency-trained physicians and nurses, the dedicated professionals who are constantly on the move, handle more than 46,000 visits a year. The key to effectively treating such a great number of patients while keeping stress at a minimum has been to eliminate as many time wasters as possible.
The following scenario, therefore, was frustrating: whenever an emergency medical service (EMS) team ...