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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

" An mHealth Intelligence article notes, "Real-time telehealth provides timely care, especially in emergencies or urgent situations, and maintains the concept of the doctor-patient relationship by enabling a face-to-face analysis and treatment. ."

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

At scale Apple should start supporting the training of Medics so that they can help the Patients and Carers who they have now empowered with information ( plenty of tips about that in the mHealth for Healthcare Professionals course that I developed for the Healthcare Informatics Society ).

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