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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

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) defines synchronous telemedicine as "live video-conferencing," which is a "two-way audiovisual link between a patient and a care provider." What is Synchronous Telemedicine? " The U.S. " What is Asynchronous Telemedicine?

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

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The goal of integrating patient data into the Video Connect app and leverage Bluetooth technology to transmit real-time signs and data to doctors and clinicians. The establishment of 11 “tele-hubs” for mental health care and 9 for primary care throughout the United States.

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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. Neither will her physician. At the end of the day, isn’t that the goal?

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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 ). mHealth Insights.

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