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Eastern Bavaria is a rural area associated with deep forests and its national park “Bavarian Forest”. Yet it is on the technological frontier with regard to communication and cooperation in medicine: The “Telemedicine Network Eastern Bavaria” links all the hospitals in the area and the NOAH project employs mobile PCs with wireless communication links for the on-scene physicians. This paper presents the findings of the latter project. The emergency medical services in Germany are provided by ambulance cars, vehicular emergency life support, and by helicopters making it one of the best systems world wide (see Mahgsudi et al. 1999). The overall philosophy of the German emergency care system is “Stay and Treat” as opposed to “Scoop and Run” in several other countries. Due to technical and medical progress during the last years and the continued efforts to increase the educational guidance for on-scene physicians, the emergency medical services improved significantly. Despite the existing good overall medical care, there is considerable potential for improvement concerning the management of the emergency care process, communication between the parties involved (e.g. doctor-on-scene, dispatch centre, hospital) and the documentation of emergencies.
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Röckelein, W., Maier, R., Schächinger, U. (2000). E-Health Care: A Multimedia Inter-Organisational System to Support Emergency Care Process Chains. In: Lehner, F., Maier, R. (eds) Electronic Business und Multimedia. Multimedia und Telekooperation. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85202-1_14
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