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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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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." ""Wait times for specialty care are lessened, especially in areas with shortages of medical specialists.""The

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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). Interested in following the VA’s path to operational success?

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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

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? Neither will her physician.

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