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A -- MOBILE TELEMEDICINE PROJECT POC Mary V. Adamik, Contracting Officer, 301-496-6546 E-MAIL: click her to contact the contracting officer via e-mail, mary_adamik@nih.gov. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to negotiate with BDM Federal, Inc. for a one-year continuation of Contract No. N01-LM-6-3541 to conduct a Mobile Telemedicine Project. Under this project the contractor has developed an advanced technology testbed which investigates the feasibility and practicability of transmitting real time vital sign data and video images of patients from inside an ambulance to a hospital trauma center and to a hospital data communications network via digital cellular communications and local area network technology. The proposed continuation will enhance the current digital cellular connectivity with greater reliability and bandwidth, and expand physician access to the system beyond the hospital via the Internet allowing instantaneous 24-hour availability. Authority: 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. Inherent duplication of cost to the government and unacceptable delays in completing the project make competition unfeasible for this enhancement. See Numbered Note 22. See Numbered Note 26. (0083)

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