According to Federal Computer Week, a Navy hospital ship, the USNS
Mercy, could possibly be deployed on humanitarian mission to aid victims of last week’s tsunami in South
Asia.* The ship has wideband satellite communications capabilities that would allow it to use
telehealth systems
to assist victims. Reportedly, the Mercy has hundreds of shipboard terminals running an
electronic medical record
system, and teleradiology systems, which can transmit X-rays taken onboard to radiologists at NMC San Diego for
interpretation.
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