GlobalMed

MAY 31, 2019

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

While my boss probably sent me with the purpose of evangelizing the idea of telehealth at each opportunity, I spent much of my time in wonderment of the brilliant (and often bizarre) world of health information exchange. Kaiser has mountains upon mountains of longitudinal, real-world health information.

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GlobalMed

JULY 29, 2019

Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation Z (1997-2011) either grew up or came of age in a digital world. The doctor will send him home with a thermometer, blood pressure cuff, and other tools so nurses can monitor Matt’s vitals and intervene if necessary. Generation Next. It’s obvious which doctor Matt is going to choose.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital.

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