Many in the healthcare industry believe that telemedicine holds the key to solving some of America’s most pressing healthcare problems, namely access and expense.Video conferences between doctors and patients, for example, are quicker, easier and more convenient for both parties than traditional in-office visits, the thinking goes.But many states restrict doctors’ ability to prescribe medicine to patients they’ve never seen in person, potentially setting up a barrier to telemedicine adoption.

MedCity News is providing in-depth coverage of HIMSS2012 as part of a special series sponsored by Hyland Software.Telemedicine startup HealthSpot will use electronic stethoscopes from 3M in its virtual-doctors’-office kiosks.Connecting 3M’s Littmann Stethoscope Model 3200 with HealthSpot’s Care4 Station will allow clinicians to listen to critical body sounds in real time when examining patients at [...]

A telemedicine startup that’s developed a virtual doctors’ office kiosk has signed a technology integration deal with wireless communications giant Sprint.HealthSpot‘s “Care4 Station” telemedicine kiosks will be connected to the Sprint 4G Network. That will enable video conferences, patient vital sign data and other health information to be transmitted from patients in HealthSpot’s kiosks to [...]

Don’t let it be said that a telemedicine startup that bills itself as an ATM for healthcare is lacking in optimism.The top executive with Columbus, Ohio-based HealthSpot told Columbus Business First that the startup projects that it’ll hit $1 billion in annual revenue within five years. Even with the telemedicine market expected to boom in [...]

A Columbus, Ohio-area telemedicine startup is looking to provide hurried patients a better alternative than retail medical clinics with its virtual-doctor’s-office kiosks.HealthSpot aims to place its “Care4 Station” kiosks in locations like pharmacies, grocery stores and employer sites, and plans to begin rolling out the kiosks in the first quarter. The company plans to start [...]