Children's Mercy Hospital, Idaho company pair up to improve rural telemedicine

Kansas City, Mo.-based Children's Mercy Hospital will be using technology created by Boise, Idaho-based Cradlepoint to provide telemedicine to rural patients, according to the Kansas City Business Journal.

Children's Mercy already utilizes remote stethoscopes and diagnostic examination cameras, which rely on web-based software and a solid internet connection. Cradlepoint's technology will improve the hospital's ability to diagnose patients remotely, creating a  portable telemedicine network that will provide patients and physicians with secure internet access both in rural areas and on the go.

"Having the ability to take our solutions out into the field and not having to worry about the patients' video quality ... I just can't express how happy and relieved I am to have the ability to do that now," said Morgan Waller, Children's Mercy Hospital's director of telemedicine. "The ability to have portable internet is something that has come up from the beginning of building this program five years ago."

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