Firefighters are testing an emergency photo messaging scheme to help save more lives

Fourteen Scottish officers have been equiped with camera phones on a trial basis, and will be sending picture of injuries to doctors (of Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy's Victoria Infirmary) by MMS before patients reach the hospital. Seeing the images beforehand will allow the doctors to assess how serious the injury is, allowing for vital treatment in the early stages.

The trial in the Fife region will run for six months and then its impact will be reviewed, according to the BBC.

In a related post on Picturephoning.com, Doctors use picture phones, senior doctors at a Welsh hospital are allowing interns to send them picture messages of an X-ray by mobile phone, to speed up the diagnosis and suggested treatment process.

emily | 11:46 AM | Business Applications |
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