1999News

High-tech tele-medicine center opened

President Fern?ndez officially inaugurated yesterday a new high-tech Center for Diagnosis, Advanced Medicine, Medical Conferences and Tele-medicine (CEDIMET) at the Plaza de la Salud in Santo Domingo. Under a pact between the CEDIMET and Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, Dominican doctors will be able to routinely consult American specialists on cases through a teleconferencing line that will remain constantly open. CEDIMET will offer its services to all specialties and will be available for cases involving any Dominican, regardless of economic status. Doctors utilizing the CEDIMET services will be able to share x-ray, sonogram, laproscopic and other information and images with American colleagues in real-time.