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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Jayme Lozano Carver

This new law will help health care workers save lives in ambulances that cover wide-open West Texas

An ambulance is parked at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas 
at Austin in 2018.
House Bill 617 provides emergency telemedicine medical services and telehealth services in rural areas by installing secure video calls and wireless patient monitoring in ambulances already in transit to an emergency room. (Credit: Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune)

LUBBOCK — West Texas is home to endless miles of plains filled with oil field machinery, wind turbines, farms and ranches.

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