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Amazon launch Amazon Care service offering Mobile Video Consults with Primary Care Physicians & Nurses

mHealth Insight

It’s of course a great validation of the value of the 3G Doctor service that we launched in 2006 that Amazon have put a similar service at the heart of their new Amazon Care service for employees in the Seattle area.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

Often, special telehealth-enabled instruments, such as a video otoscope or an electronic stethoscope, are operated by a nurse or technician at the consulting provider's direction to remotely perform a physical examination." Obtaining CME hours via a downloadable course is another example of asynchronous telehealth services."

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Help us produce 2 new mHealth lectures for Medical Students next week

mHealth Insight

Useful Patient information: imagine how it might help the Parent of a child on dialysis if they watched the UCD nephrology course. MD FastTrack for Experienced Nurses. Instills Transparency, Confidence in the profession. UCD should pride itself on the number of Medical Schools around the world that copy their lectures.

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