<p>Right now, if one doctor wants to email information about a patient to another, it's a headache at best. At worst, it's impossible. In fact, there is often only limited ability to send a patient's records from one hospital to another by any digital means.</p><p>This was a difficult fact of life for Don Kosiak, an emergency physician at Avera Health, a network of hospitals in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. In order to conquer the problems brought on by sparse populations and big distances between health care facilities, Kosiak had created a telemedicine unit in which doctors in far-flung hospitals can consult with emergency physicians via cameras and secure network connections. But that didn't help him send health records.</p><p>"I have this fancy telemedicine network but then when I have documents to send, I fax them," he says.</p><p>Enter a new product called SUMS being introduced by the telecommunications giant Verizon at the big health IT conference, HIMSS. As an early user of the product, Kosiak finally had a way to get health records where they had to be digitally, allowing him to make more complete use of electronic health systems.</p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2013/03/04/verizon-makes-push-into-health-with-what-looks-like-gmail-but-isnt/">Keep reading...</a></p>