MetroAtlanta Ambulance Service



	MetroAtlanta Ambulance Is The Second Provider In The Nation To Utilize New and Innovative Technology To Monitor Patients
	Date: 2004-12-21
	When there?s a serious accident, a stroke, a severe asthma attack or an acute myocardial infarction, every minute counts. Treatment and care started at an early stage prolongs and saves lives. That?s why we?ve installed MobiMed in our Cobb County ambulances and in the E.R. at WellStar Kennestone Hospital. MobiMed is a telemedical information system developed by Ortivus North America, that provides ambulance crews and hospital staff with critical patient data in real time, making sure that the right resources can be mobilized wherever the patient may happen to be. MetroAtlanta CEO Pete Quinones stated, ?Our current technology can send a 12-lead electrocardiography to the E.R. via facsimile with a short delay but MobiMed delivers critical vital signs including oxygen saturation; blood pressure and a 12-lead electrocardiography in real time via computer, as the Paramedic see it. It also allows the physician and Paramedic to text message notes regarding treatment thus eliminating miscommunications.? Installed in ambulances, helicopters, on ferries and in hospitals, the MobiMed system is used around the world on a daily basis by thousands of paramedics, nurses, physicians and managers to assist in delivering emergency care. Experience in European countries has shown that utilizing MobiMed helps to considerably reduce the time from the ambulance being called to treatment being given. Giving the hospital up-to-date patient data means that a physician can decide immediately on the treatment to be started while the ambulance is still at home or enroute to the hospital and can better mobilize the resources needed even before the patient arrives. If resources aren?t going to be readily available the physician can divert the ambulance to another hospital. In partnership with Ortivus North America, MetroAtlanta Ambulance is currently using MobiMed in Cobb County and has a monitoring station located in the busiest emergency department in Georgia at WellStar Kennestone. We are excited about the technology and the data that MobiMed will offer to our local physicians. MetroAtalnta President/CEO, Pete Quinones stated, ?With the opening of WellStar Health System?s new Open Heart Surgery Program, we are optimistic that MobiMed could provide the extra bit of information that will help physicians fast track a patient in need of a surgical intervention through the E.R and into the hands of a Cardiac Specialist and ultimately result in saving someone?s life. At the end of the day that is really all that matters.?

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