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Show TEST EQUIPMENT: Norma Macfar-lane Macfar-lane of the Valley View Medical staff is the "victim" in this test run of the newly installed Dataphone at the Cedar City facility. On hand for the test were, left to right. Don Murdock, central office repairman with the Mt. States Telephone; Aulene Jeffery, directory di-rectory of the lab; Mary Smith, director direc-tor of nurses; Olga Beck, lab technician; techni-cian; Wm. D. Whipple, hospital administrator, ad-ministrator, and Imogene Biederman, assistant director of nurses. Dataphone Installed at Hospital For Help in Electrocardiographs Transmission of Electrocardiographs Electro-cardiographs by "Dataphone" is a new service now available at the ValLey View Medical Center via a telephone tie-up between the hospital and the Cardiologist center in Salt Lake City. The "Dataphone" is one of the many specialized services which is offered by the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone Company, Com-pany, j When a member of the hos-' pital medical staff desires an immediate reading of an electrocardiograph elec-trocardiograph of a patient by a cardiologist, the "Dataphone" "Data-phone" is connected to the EKG machine..... .. - The devise collects the intelligence, in-telligence, converts it into tones, which are transmitted through the "Dataphone" set over the telephone lines. In the Cardiologist's office, the tones are converted back into intelligence by a reproducing Dataphone exactly as they have been transmitted from the hospital. The Cardiologist is able to give an immediate interpretation interpreta-tion and advise the doctor at the Valley View Medical Center Cen-ter of necessary medcations and treatments which can begin be-gin at once. William D. Whipple, administrator admin-istrator at the Center, views the addition of this life saving sav-ing device as . another .step forward in reaching the goal of becoming a Medical Center for southern Utah. :- |