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At the touch of a button at East Georgia Regional
Statesboro hospital now has instant access in ICU with Emory nurses, physicians
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A new cooperative project between East Georgia Regional Medical Center and Emory University links the Statesboro hospital's ICU by audio, video and continuous computer charting of patients' vital signs to Emory's 24/7 critical care medical staff. Nights and weekends, 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. Monday through Friday, and from 7 p.m. Friday until Monday morning, Emory's critical care physicians will make rounds electronically to check on some of the hospital's sickest patients, said East Georgia Regional CEO Bob Bigley. "Of course there are always doctors here that are on call," Bigley said.
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