The ever-changing field of telemedicine: 3 experts weigh in
At yesterday's Pepperdine Graziadio Future of Healthcare Symposium, a panel of experts discussed the impact of telemedicine and what is to come.
Telemedicine startup Doctor on Demand replaces CEO with PayPal exec
Hill Ferguson worked for PayPal for four years after eBay, which owns PayPal, acquired the mobile payments service Zong, where he was vice president of product and marketing.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Telemedicine startup Doctor on Demand adds psychiatrists
The move gives Doctor on Demand a total of 300 psychologists and psychiatrists.
From Practice Fusion’s future to CVS teaming up with telemedicine competitors: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week
Telemedicine was the main theme for MedHeads this week, and the same subject was also present in some of our top stories from the week.
CVS teams with American Well, Teladoc, Doctor On Demand to widen physician access
Even as telemedicine rivals American Well and Teladoc battle it out in court over intellectual property, CVS Health is bringing those two together with competitor Doctor On Demand to test how retail pharmacies, convenience clinics and direct-to-consumer telehealth companies can widen patient access to physicians.
Doctor on Demand teams with telemedicine kiosk-maker Computerized Screening Inc.
The partnership represents Reno, Nev.-based CSI's first dealings with a consumer-facing, on-call physician service.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Emotion recognition technology shows promise for telemedicine
Emotion recognition technology can help in the world of telemedicine and day to day life allowing people to understand what others are feeling even though they may not be saying it.
Doctor on Demand raises $50M to expand employer and retail drugstore customers, plans to add 50+ non MD staff
Tenaya Capital led the Series B round. Other new investors included Qualcomm Ventures, Dignity Health, and Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe.
Doctor On Demand tests telemedicine kiosks in Wegmans stores
Retail telemedicine startup Doctor On Demand is testing the waters of the pharmacy market by installing tablet-based kiosks at Wegmans grocery stores in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Will this partnership of startups help telehealth seekers know what their insurance will cover?
Silicon Valley startups PokitDok and Doctor on Demand announced a strategic alliance that they said will help users of Doctor on Demand’s telemedicine services more quickly determine what’s covered, thereby streamlining both the visit and payment process. Doctor on Demand CEO Adam Jackson said the effort will eliminate the often-slow or burdensome process of connecting […]
BioLabs Pegasus Park Cultivates Life Science Ecosystem
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Doctor Phil isn’t tech savvy and 3 other takeaways from telemedicine talk at CES Digital Health Summit
Doctor Phil McGraw appeared at the Digital Health Summit at the CES in Las Vegas this week to talk about telemedicine, particularly his Doctor on Demand business, a company he co-founded with his son, Jay who produces The Doctors. He’s a powerful name with the potential to make telemedicine a household word. His daytime TV […]
Doctor on Demand bets big on telemedicine, mental health by adding 300 shrinks
San Francisco startup Doctor on Demand is looking to expand the reaches of telemedicine, using the emerging medium to address significant issues of access and stigma for mental health. Today, Doctor on Demand announced it has hired 300 psychologists and psychiatrists across the country to provide a host of behavioral health services, augmenting its primary-care […]
Here’s a few of the health startups that stood out at HealthBeat
As HealthBeat drew to a close, ten digital health startups took to the stage in an attempt to convince healthcare techies (healthies? hechies?) that they were all the next big thing disrupting the toughest problems with in an industry fraught technological hurdles. All have great ideas and intentions, undoubtedly, but a few stood out, in […]
Castlight, Doctor on Demand team up to combine price transparency and telemedicine
Castlight Health has teamed up with San Francisco-based startup Doctor on Demand, in a partnership that blends two of healthcare’s biggest trends – pricing transparency and telemedicine. Castlight will now offer Doctor on Demand‘s video visits with board-certified physicians through its healthcare cloud, giving Doctor on Demand access to more than 130 companies that have […]
SeeChange, in shift away from health plan to telemedicine and big data, inks deal with Doctor on Demand
As the Affordable Care Act took shape, bringing with it massive changes to the world of health insurance, SeeChange Health saw both troubled waters and opportunities ahead. Once a PPO health plan with a technology business, the San Francisco-based company shifted completely out of the health plan world and turned its attention to the then-burgeoning […]