OPTAC-X and Mayo Clinic LTE-Global SATCOM Telehealth Technology Allows Physician Guidance in EMS Environment | PR Newswire [Video]

OPTAC-X head-mounted camera technology enables pre-hospital EMS telehealth services

, /PRNewswire/ — OPTAC-X, a telehealth leader with remote physician and tele-expert networks, today announced it and Mayo Clinic are the first known collaboration to provide physician guidance to an EMS team using OPTAC-X’s hybrid LTE-global SATCOM telehealth technology to aid in a patient’s successful cardiac arrest resuscitation outside the ambulance and hospital. The technology, which operates on LTE and both LEO and GEO satellite systems, can enable physicians to connect to pre-hospital patients within the ambulance, outside the ambulance or anywhere at any time regardless of local wi-fi availability.

An academic article regarding the 65-year-old female patient was published today in “Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health,”a medical journal published by the Mayo Clinic. The article reports that the patient experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest at her residence, about 4 miles from the Mayo Clinic’s emergency department. The patient’s family began chest compressions under the direction of the emergency medical dispatchers and continued CPR …