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September 23, 2016

Bering Sea health clinic opens an electronic ICU

  • Real-time camera links will let emergency doctors view X-rays and patient charts, and talk directly with patients in Dutch Harbor.
    • By RACHEL D'ORO
    Associated Press

    ANCHORAGE — The only clinic in one of the nation's busiest commercial fishing ports is so remote that even conventional telemedicine for emergencies has been impossible for its limited staff — until now.

    Starting Thursday, a new partnership with an Anchorage hospital will virtually beam critical care doctors 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) away to the emergency room on the island that holds Dutch Harbor, the operations base for the Bering Sea crabbing fleet made famous by the Discovery Channel show “Deadliest Catch.”


     
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