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Ochsner Health has implemented a system called TeleStork through which live, beat-to-beat monitoring is centralized, and heart tracings from laboring patients across the system are monitored. If the trained registered nurses monitoring TeleStork note an abnormal fetal heart tracing, the physicians in-house are notified to ensure timely intervention. Here, a maternal fetal specialist monitors live streaming of maternal and fetal health records of labor and delivery patients in hospitals throughout the Ochsner Health system.