TytoCare, an Israeli-based telehealth company is teaming up with Best Buy to make it easier and more convenient for customers to receive healthcare. Tyto Care’s TytoHome is now available exclusively on BestBuy.com for all customers and in select Minnesota Best Buy stores, with in-store availability coming soon in North Dakota, South Dakota, California, and Ohio.TytoHome: How It WorksTytoHome, available for $299.99, is a handheld examination device with attachments that can examine the heart,
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Vonage Launches New API Platform for Healthcare Market
Vonage, a global business cloud communications leader, has launched a new Enterprise Service Package and APIs via Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, designed specifically for the healthcare market. With APIs that align to strict healthcare guidelines, this new addition to Nexmo’s global Enterprise Plan provides healthcare businesses with consultative and development support, service delivery, and service level agreements (SLAs), to create custom solutions that deliver a secure, compliant and
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Request A Virtual Doctor Visit Directly from Google, Bing, Yelp
VSee, a San Jose-based telemedicine company and Doctor.com, a web-wide listings management, reputation, and patient communications platform -- are partnering to create a seamless online patient journey from Google, Bing, Yelp search to virtual visit. Doctor.com’s platform currently serves more than 200K providers and leverages the only partner network in the industry of 50+ integrations, including Google, Bing, Yelp, Healthgrades, Vitals, YP, and other major consumer health destinations.VSee
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The Four Cs: A Call to Action for Digital Health Tools
Dr. Nirmal Patel, MD, MPH, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Babyscripts
The United States spends more of their GDP on healthcare than any other developed nation, and yet it produces some of the poorest outcomes — notably in the field of maternal and infant health.
The advent of digital health has presented the opportunity for a paradigm shift in the delivery of care, and support from investors and policy-makers shows that as far as they’re concerned, digital health is not a new
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ATA Unveils ATA19 Annual Conference Award Winners
The ATA, the nation’s leading telehealth association has unveiled the winners of this year’s annual awards that recognize exemplary achievements and individuals in the telehealth field. The annual conference awards will be presented at the ATA19 Annual Conference and Expo in New Orleans on April 14-16, 2019. “The winners of this year’s awards are doing amazing work and it’s wonderful to see the innovation and transformation that is happening in the Telehealth field,” said Laurie Poole, Vice
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Cincinnati Children’s, Teladoc to Develop First Pediatric-Specific Consumer Telehealth Platform
Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati Children’s) is teaming up
with virtual care provider Teladoc Health
to develop the industry’s first consumer pediatric telehealth platform. The
pediatric-specific consumer telehealth
platform builds off Cincinnati Children’s existing Center for
Telehealth that currently offers video-based
telemedicine clinics, video consults, e-visits and remote provider case
conferences to help build relationships with physicians and families to speed
up
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InTouch Health Unveils Integrated Virtual Care Platform For Any Use Case
Virtual care platform InTouch Health today announced the launch of its fully integrated, end-to-end virtual care platform, Solo by InTouch. The next generation software platform delivers enterprise solutions to provide high-quality, patient-centric virtual care for every use case and any clinical setting.According to reports, more than 50 percent of healthcare can be delivered virtually. With Solo by InTouch, healthcare providers can leverage for every type of user and use case, including
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Vuzix, VSee Launches Telemedicine Smart Glasses Solution
Vusix, a supplier of Smart Glasses
and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced it is
partnering with VSee, San Jose-based telemedicine
company, to provide a smart glasses telemedicine solution for real-time video. Adding
HIPAA-compliant live video chat to the Vuzix smart glasses line means real-time
video doctor visits, surgical training, medical equipment training, and more.
VSee provides a HIPAA-compliant video telehealth and
telemedicine video conferencing solution
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Telemedicine: A Potential Remedy to Rural Healthcare Ills?
Mary Tolan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders
The symptoms are innocuous enough at first. They begin with simple fatigue; readily explainable by a day spent working under the hot sun. The thirst sets in next, then the persistent hunger. The farmer brushes his symptoms off as simple work-caused exhaustion, and rationalizes that anyone would be tired, hungry, and thirsty after a long day in the field - he's getting older, after all. He thinks little of it until his
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Beam to Power Telehealth Video Consults
DrChrono, an electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices announced an integration partnership with telemedicine network Beam Health Group. The integration with Beam’s mobile app available on Google Play and the App Store will enable physicians the ability to upgrade their practices with the ability to have patient appointments via smartphone.Integration Benefits for Medical Practices and PatientsStarting now, the physician practices using DrChrono’s EHR platform can download
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