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

mHealth Insight

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. the US telco Sprint (who had 25,000 employees) couldn’t find any employees who would accept a monthly $100 bonus to share their blood glucose monitor readings as part of a study.

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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." " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?