TeleHealth
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports on the growth of telemedicine. The Mayo Clinic, for example, is getting into the act. "The technology for telemedicine has been around for years, but there has been a catch: Insurers wouldn't pay for...
Senators on the Commerce Committee recently promoted the benefits of high-speed internet access and called for the passage of measures designed to provide more public information about broadband, and more broadband connectivity. At a hearing on...
Here is a survey from HIMSS looking at rates of adoption for telemedicine. Nearly two-thirds of health IT professionals surveyed said it would take four or more years until telemedicine reaches widespread adoption, according to a new...
Health care applications for the iPhone, text messages from physicians and even Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game are versions of telemedicine, according to Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the American Telemedicine Association....
An interesting new development funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that will allow patients to collect and annotate images for incorporation into their records. Dr. Dan Fletcher at the University of California at Berkeley and his...
There is an interesting story by Benjamin Brewer, MD on WSJ.com that contrasts my post last week about physicians mocking telemedicine options via the Internet. The story starts: "My patient probably would have rather been anywhere else....
