Ambulances in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, have been equipped with new digital connections with leading hospitals in the area.

Doctors can now send a patient's information through the system to hospital specialists and receive guidance on emergency treatment - and even surgery - while on their way to hospital, said officials from Pudong New Area Medical Emergency Center and its eight subcenters. Ambulances should now be able to reach patients within 10 minutes, officials said yesterday.

(Shanghai Daily August 16, 2007)