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Tele-Radiology
This service provides patients and physicians in rural locations with rapid medical imaging results. Patient CT scans and x-rays are sent via high speed network to radiologists at Saint Alphonsus to view digitally online. Exam results/findings are then made available to rural physicians more quickly so they can effectively treat their patients.

Home Telemonitoring
People with chronic conditions that require continuous monitoring, such as diabetes or congestive heart failure, can benefit from home telemonitoring.

The home telemonitoring system provides patients with education related to proper self-management of a condition and has reminders to monitor vital signs daily. Data from home-monitoring units, including weight, blood pressure, glucose, and answer to health assessments are available through a web-based application for health care provider review. Nurses are able to view patient vital signs and health assessment data and call patients in response to abnormal results.

In this way, health care providers are able to better monitor a patient's condition and intervene more quickly when there is a problem. Further, patients learn more about self-management of the chronic condition, which is key to maintaining health.

Telemedicine with Shriner's Hospital
Shriner's Children's Hospital in Utah uses the Saint Alphonsus Telemedicine program to view the physical developmental progress of their surgical patients who live in our region. This provides patients and their families safer access to healthcare and reduced expenses by minimizing travel distance and time away from work and home.

Tele-Cardiology
Provides patients around the region better access to care by enabling cardiac specialists at Saint Alphonsus to immediately view side-by-side views of the heart wall and associated motion and flow. Cardiologists can transfer and instantly receive health information—diagnostic imaging (cardiac catheterization, echocardiograms), CT (computed tomography) scans, and MRI scans—from one room to the other, one part of the state to another or across the country, eliminating wait time and allowing for immediate advice and diagnosis.

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