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Mobile Telemedicine and the Effects on Patients and Caregivers: Grace’s Story

Mobile Telemedicine provides countless benefits not only to patients yet to both first responders and medical facilities. It maximizes time, saves money and shrinks margin for error; with an average patient cos...

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Overdose Outcomes Improve Telemedicine

CHALLENGE AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The opioid crisis is a population health issue impacting lives in nearly every community across the country. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and public safety first responders a...

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Hospital Patient Transfers with Optional Protocols!

Patient Transfers are business. Serious business for all patients involved; transferring hospitals, transport service, agent and – the patient. They hold the balance to patient care, place and time plus the bus...

Opioid Crisis
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The Opioid Epidemic Deserves More Than a Single-Pronged Approach

In 2016, nearly 64,000 Americans under the age of 50, died as a result of the Opioid epidemic. This is a 540% rise in just three years. This epidemic has become one of the leading causes of death over guns and ...

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Change How You Communicate with Hospitals & Healthcare Providers

One of the most significant and dangerous gaps in patient care is between EMS providers and emergency departments. The antiquated approach of EMS sharing patient health information (PHI) via radio or hard copy ...

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Joe Perkins is Welcomed as the Newest Member of GD’s Responsive Innovation Team

Date: April 13, 2018 Contact: Andrew Birnbaum E: marketing@general-devices.com P: 201-313-7075 F: 201-313-5671 W: www.general-devices.com Ridgefield, NJ – July 2018 — GD is proud to announc...

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Is Radio a Necessity in EMS and Hospital Emergency Communications?

Contact: Andrew Birnbaum E: marketing@general-devices.com  P: 201-313-7075 F: 201-313-5671 W: www.general-devices.com   Ridgefield, NJ — Hospitals, EMS, and other organizations are increasingly wondering if two...

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GD e-Bridge™ Shorten the Distance between the Patient and the Hospital

Connecting Rural Care Providers: GD’s e-Bridge™ system helps EMS share critical information quickly and securely with distant doctors and hospitals. When the nearest hospital is miles away, advanced communicat...

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GD’s Workflow Streamlines Critical Care Procedures

Critical care demands precision and accuracy- The newest solution e-Bridge Workflow, provides just that. Workflow gives first responders the tools they need to treat patients en route while giving the waiting E...

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GD Enhances its Mobile Telemedicine App – Android Version – and Announces Ambulance Tracking

RIDGEFIELD, NJ – May 1, 2018 – GD, developer of the most comprehensive and widely used medical communications and mobile telemedicine solutions, has announced an update to the Android version of its mobile...

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Interview with Curt Bashford, CEO of General Devices (GD) on Telemedicine

by Tamara Williams, April 20, 2018 Curt Bashford CEO  General Devices (GD) Health IT Connections member Curt Bashford shares some insights with us on the telemedicine market. The projected $34B global tel...

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GD Enhances its Mobile Telemedicine App – Android Version – and Announces Added Features

RIDGEFIELD, NJ – May 1, 2018 – GD, developer of the most comprehensive and widely used medical communications and mobile telemedicine solutions, today announced an update to the Android version of its mobi...

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Mobile Telemedicine Fills Acute Care Gaps

When you think of emergency acute care, many things come to mind. Urgency, assessment, information gathering, and split-second decisions are just a few. One thing that should never come to mind? Risk. The requ...

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Does Your EMS-ED Patient Handoffs Process Need a Hand?

Patient handoffs continue to present challenges and risk to hospitals. In fact, according to the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, “An estimated 80 percent of serious medical errors involve m...

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FirstNet Should No Longer be Thought of as a Future Concept

By Curt Bashford On March 8th I was fortunate to speak alongside fellow industry professionals at the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE 2018) in Orlando, Florida. Our panel, moderated by FirstNet...

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GD becomes a 2017 EMS World Innovation Award Finalist

Responsive Innovation is not only our tagline.   It’s in our DNA. GD is proud to once again be selected as a finalist for the EMS World Innovation Award for e-Bridge’s new real-time ambulance ETA Tra...

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GD Named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies in America

GD Named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies in America Ranks No. 2503 on the 2017 Inc. 5000 for Three-Year Growth Ridgefield, NJ, August, 2017 – Inc. magazine ranked GD 2503 on its 36th annual I...

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REALIZING VALUE AND ROI THROUGH IMPROVED EMS CALL HANDLING:

This case study is based on a major Southeast Chicago hospital.  Providing care for over 110 years, they treat more than 90,000 patients each year with expertise in more than 50 specialties. This includes advan...

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Reducing Blind Spots and Mitigating Risk in EMS-Hospital Communications Using CAREpoint with D-Scribe

Case Study – St. Mary Medical Center EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For the hospital, patient care provided by EMS is often a blind spot in the overall care continuum. The national average for the percentage of EMS am...

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800th CAREpoint Telehealth Implementation!

For over 9 years Wellmont Health System has been utilizing CAREpoint in their facilities to improve their communications, documentation and EKG management. In their continuing effort to provide the best possibl...