Wednesday, December 09, 2009

South Dakota Hospital gets Huge Telepharmacy Equipment Grant

From the Rapid City Journal out of Rapid City, SD, comes this news:

Regional Health of Rapid City will receive a $386,549 federal grant to buy videoconferencing devices to link 15 sites, including rural hospitals as well as clinics, with regional medical resources at three sites in Rapid City. The grant was one of three Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants awarded in South Dakota last week by U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development.

Among the goals of the Regional Health project are specialty consultation, tele-dialysis and tele-pharmacy, as well as continuing medical education for providers, according to a Rural Development news release.

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