Telemedicine improves care for kids seen in rural ERs

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Telemedicine consults can help rural emergency room doctors provide better care to seriously ill or injured young patients, new research confirms. Rural hospitals and doctors’ offices are increasingly using telemedicine – essentially, videoconferencing with another doctor from a remote location – to gain access to specialty care, Dr. James Marcin of the University of California Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, the senior author of the new study, told Reuters Health. …