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Amazon’s Move in Telehealth

May 17, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

Amazon’s Alexa lets customers avail voice-activated virtual healthcare
“Amazon customers with Alexa-enabled devices can now get on-demand medical care through the [MORE]

Walmart’s Healthcare “Super Center”

January 14, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

 
Walmart Health
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, has been exploring healthcare offerings for more than a decade.  Now, the company has [MORE]

Guthrie Cards for Everyone

January 5, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Gutherie Card Icon
Almost everyone born in the US since 1970 had a state-mandated protein screening done at birth performed with [MORE]

The “Quantified Self”

February 10, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Use of Healthcare Apps
At present, about a quarter of adults use fitness trackers or smartphone apps that collect physiological data. [MORE]

Teaching Patients to Use Medical Apps

February 3, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Morristown Medical HealteConnect
Morristown (NJ) Medical Center has installed a “storefront” called “Healtheconnect” in its lobby to teach patients how to [MORE]

Android Wear, Apple’s Healthbook and Samsung’s Virtual “White Cane”

June 10, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

iWatch
People have always been anxious about their health status to some degree, but today that has become a retail healthcare [MORE]

CVS Adopts EPIC EMR System Prior to Services Expansion

May 20, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

Minute Clinic
How will we know when CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, et al in retail healthcare make their strategic move into the [MORE]

Healthcare’s “Blue Light Special”

October 1, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

There’s no reason why the defining features of the big box stores—i.e. chain stores, cash and carry, special departments, self [MORE]

Telepresenters: Telemedicine’s New Assistants

July 23, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

In some situations, telemedicine will require an assistant at a patient’s location to coordinate care with a remote physician.  [MORE]

Panasonic’s North American Healthcare Group

July 3, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Japan’s consumer electronics giants, which once dominated the world market for televisions, music machines, and cameras, have been losing [MORE]

MUSING – The Healthcare Solution: Looking in All the Wrong Places

April 26, 2011 | | Posted in Ask the Experts,Musings,Newsletter

Aging boomers provide the catalyst for a more aggressive consumer participant approach to their health.  The Internet gave them the [MORE]

Walgreens’ “Take Care Health System”

February 1, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Walgreens, which operates 370 workplace clinics, has been working with Intel for the past five years in developing a [MORE]