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From Cheap Phone Calls with Doctors to Machine Learning Second Opinions for Patients who are already in the Care of an Oncologist

mHealth Insight

mHealth Insights. Can you even begin to imagine the typical Patient experience? 8) Patients will be expected by their insurers to follow the advice given to them by a Doctor over a Video Call who has never read or understood why they are giving you this advice. Will IBM’s Watson write for CNN before treating patients?

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Keynote Speakers at ATA 2013

Medicine and Technology

Mercy, a 31 hospital healthcare system serving hundreds of communities in the Midwest, is transforming the patient experience through comprehensive telemedicine and HIT services. Under Britton’s leadership, Mercy was named the 2012 “Most Wired” healthcare organization by the American Hospital Organization.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link].