TeleHealth
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....
Monday July 21, 8:55 am ET Agreement Will Combine NuPhysicia's Proven Telemedicine with Clinics Operated by My Healthy Access in Select Houston-Area Wal-Mart Supercenters to Provide Convenient Access to Physician Directed Medical Care to...
A Wal-Mart store (Supercenter) in Houston has opened a telemedicine-based health care delivery system. Similar stories have broke recently about health clinics in other large retail outlets such as Target that I have posted about and some have...
Rush University Medical Center's new study reports that elderly patients suffering from chronic illnesses receiving virtual care from a team of medical experts linked together via phone, fax, and e-mail make fewer emergency room visits. The...
