MS emergency rooms equipped for disease identification
Emergency Management Alert, February 22, 2005
Seventeen hospitals in Mississippi received a computer program last week that immediately identifies bioterrorism victims, the Clarion Ledger reported.
Emergency room doctors will use the $400,000 software to identify questionable skin rashes that could point to fatal diseases, such as smallpox and tularemia, Jim Craig, director of health protection with the state department of health told the Ledger.
The software, Visual DX, is a part of the state's emergency preparedness plan. Mississippi is the first state to implement the program into its preparedness plan.
"Imagine if you have an almanac of books about skin rashes and poxes," Craig said. "This program has all that information with pictures compiled into one place. This software will allow you to go into the emergency room and get an immediate diagnosis of what rash or pox it is."
The software covers more than 300 diseases with more than 8,000 digital images.
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