Emergency-medical-service (EMS) paramedic units for AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, N.J., will be able to leverage the e-Bridge Mobile Telemedicine application from General Device (GD) and Sonim Technologies’ XP8 ultra-rugged smartphones in an effort to save critical treatment time for patients.
General Devices CEO Curt Bashford said his company developed e-Bridge several years ago primarily as an application that delivered secure, HIPAA-compliant messages, but reliable connectivity from FirstNet and rugged broadband devices like the Sonim XP8 has allowed the application to support multimedia use.
“e-Bridge is a mobile telemedicine app, and it can pass everything from simple secure text-notification messages to multimedia—pictures, video clips, or other data we can pull from cardiac monitors,” Bashford said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications.
“With FirstNet, it gives them that pipe that’s really appropriate for these use cases. These are some of the early use cases envisioned for that [FirstNet]—being able to do video, being able to do telemedicine. Having more surety, priority and quality of service gives them what they need to make some of these things practical.”