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Word: medevac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today's hospitals are using communications technology to send digitized images of everything from broken bones to brains from one medical facility to the next. Even medevac units at remote accident locations can send images and data back to base hospitals so that emergency-room teams know exactly what they are dealing with when the patient arrives. Although teleradiology has been around for a decade or so, only now is it moving into the mainstream of medical care, thanks to lower-cost computers, significantly improved clarity of video images and improvements in networking and telecommunications. Many surgeons routinely use sophisticated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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