Ms. Gail Graham at the Veterans Affairs Committee

On March 23rd, 2009. See this statement in context.

March 23rd, 2009 / 4:40 p.m.

Deputy Chief Officer, Health Information Management, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Gail Graham

For the veterans right now, we're looking at some examples of using it, for example, with the home health nurses. The local medical centre in Washington, DC, is actually using BlackBerrys to transmit EKGs from the emergency room to the on-call cardiologist so they can do an immediate reading of the EKG and start ordering interventions before they can drive to the hospital. We're exploring a lot of those technologies right now, predominantly on the side of clinicians using those devices.

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