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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." As a final application example, synchronous telemedicine is helping improve medication management.

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

mHealth Insight

We’ve never seen it work before at scale and there are loads of examples of how challenging it can be as employers have a long history of tripping workers up with small print eg. Privacy and your employer: If this service is enthusiastically adopted by employees it will be a break through that we’ll need to study extensively.

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The 5 minute download on the NYeC Conference 2013

American Well

Here we are on the cusp of 2014, the golden age of instant global communication- it seems there is literally nothing you cannot find on the internet- and yet, there is a tremendous deficit in the field of healthcare informatics. What does this mean to you? While the idea of integrated health is not revolutionary, the practice is.

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