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

mHealth Insight

This isn’t the first experience they have of trying to run a healthcare service for employees as in 2013 at Zappos.com (a subsidiary since it was acquired in 2009) they launched TurnTable Health as a ‘next generation primary care clinic’ for staff next door to their huge office in downtown Las Vegas.

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

care innovations

The VA Mission Act , which gives eligible VA providers the power to treat patients who live in other states , granting a certain level of immunity for state-imposed sanctions on care interactions crossing state lines (as they often do with virtual visits). This is not a unique, boutique activity.”.

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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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The 5 minute download on the NYeC Conference 2013

American Well

This wild and beautiful city is a magnet for all types of industry, so it’s no surprise that it’s a hotbed of digital health technology innovation. I already knew, as many in the healthcare industry do, about Kaiser’s delivery model and its benefits. Why are all 8 million New Yorkers headed to Penn Station at the same time?

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): June 2015

American Well

 Each month, Avizia will provide a recap of the latest industry news and public policy updates on issues impacting the use and deployment of telemedicine. Healthcare Informatics. How big of a barrier is it to the telehealth industry that states have varying laws? ” Read More.

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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 ). In this talk I gave at Doctors 2.0

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