As the telemedicine industry matures in the US, there’s a job that at least one provider anticipates will grow in demand in the next few years: telepresenters.They are a bit ...
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Healthcare startups in fundraising mode occasionally break the rules to get an investor’s ear. Sometimes it works, but it can generate a collective cringe from onlookers.That was the impression left ...
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Since debuting its telehealth kiosk at CES in January, three-year-old HealthSpot has raised at least $10.4 million in Series C funding and is working on building a national provider network ...
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The healthcare industry’s growing adoption of practices associated with the hospitality and retail industry seems to be percolating to the health IT industry too with a money back guarantee sales ...
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February 19, 2013 8:28 am by Julie Appleby | 0 Comments
STERLING, Va. – Perched by a computer monitor wedged between shelves of cough drops and the pharmacy in a bustling Walmart, Mohamed Khader taps out answers to questions such as ...
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February 17, 2013 7:53 am by Salasky, Prue | 2 Comments
NEWPORT NEWS -- When a disembodied voice in his Newport News home announces it's time to take his vital signs, Ron Day and his wife, Carol, head upstairs from the ...
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A desire to curtail costs is fueling a growth in U.S. telehealth patient population as a new report projects that the number is set to rise to 1.3 million by ...
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More than 136 million Americans visit an emergency room each year, but fewer than 13 percent of them are admitted to the hospital. In fact, a company called Stat Health ...
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January 28, 2013 12:03 pm by Stephanie Baum | 2 Comments
With telemedicine projected to grow to 1.8 million patients by 2017 from its current estimated level of 308,000, this area is seeing all sorts of diversification with applications from dermatology ...
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One reason Internet shopping got established and grew as quickly as it did is that online shopping sites have enjoyed a built in tax advantage over traditional retail stores. In ...
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Picture this scenario. You’ve just been admitted to a hospital to determine if you’ve had a stroke. A 5-foot tall robot, operated by remote control, wheels its way into the ...
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An iPhone adapter with a companion app designed to make it easy to share high resolution images of the retinal nerve and fundus has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. ...
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As telemedicine gains favor as a useful way to provide affordable access to healthcare, the concept has been expanded from covering rural communities with basic checkups to more specialized areas ...
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Telehealth is truly redistributing the available supply of healthcare and making it available to patients. That’s why it is perceived as such a radical change. ...
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December 26, 2012 9:11 pm by Stephanie Baum | 1 Comments
The growing acceptance of telemedicine has helped it gain ground in areas never imagined like emergency rooms in rural areas in the Midwest and to quickly identify stroke patients. In ...
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