Telemedicine News & Updates 3-28-2018
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news from Butterfly Network Inc., Royal Phillips, Innovative Imaging Technologies, MDLive, swyMed, Novartis and more.
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Telemedicine News & Updates 3-7-2018
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news from Teladoc, HelloMD, SOC Telemed, Honeywell, Joslin Diabetes Center, American Well, Avera Health, TeleHealth Services, and Healthwise.
How Do Digital Health Partnerships Happen?
By Donna Cusano – I recently covered a partnership between Doncaster UK’s MediBioSense Ltd.and San Francisco-based Blue Cedar, where Blue Cedar’s app security system will protect information from MediBioSense’s app through to the provider database.
Telemedicine News & Updates 2-14-2018
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news from American Well, Becker’s Hospital Review, 24/7 Kid Doc, American Heart Association as well as news from states like Georgia, Kansas, New York and Maine who are seeing the benefits of telemedicine and taking advantage of them.
Tower of Babel? Virtual Care Legislative Challenges Go Far Beyond Language
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty MD & Jon Pearce – Recently, Mobihealthnews published a piece providing one perspective on the legislative barriers for telemedicine. We were interested to see where the discussion would go, particularly considering Zipnosis’ significant role in supporting
Telemedicine News & Updates 1-24-2018
The latest in telehealth and telemedicine news from Vidyo, 1Vision LLC, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, VisuWell, Wellthie, Georgia/Global Partnership for Telehealth, MBLM, Synzi and more. News from some states like Louisiana, New York, Illinois and more is also included.
Texting Patient Information – The Latest from CMS
By David Harlow, JD MPH – CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago.
Virtual Care: Telehealth’s New Value Proposition
By Lee Horner – Many providers are still wary of telehealth, as they are of any tool or technology that will require them to practice differently. However, emerging technology which does not require providers to alter their workflows are revealing a totally new value proposition.
Is a Medical Virtualist Specialty Necessary? Probably Not.
By Rebecca Hafner-Fogarty, MD – Recently an opinion piece in JAMA came to my attention. In it, Drs. Nochomovitz and Sharma called for a new medical specialty to be recognized: the medical virtualist.