POSTS TAGGED AS telehealth

Thomas Jefferson Hospital Advancing Telemed

Virtual Prerscription Allowed by State
Even if the Affordable Care Act hadn’t pressured hospitals to treat people with non-life threatening conditions [MORE]

Walgreens Adopts Telemed Too

MDLIVE
Following CVS and Rite Aid, Walgreens is testing a telemed practice in selected locations. Late last year, it partnered with [MORE]

Interesting Thermal Camera for a Smartphone

Seek Thermal Camera
This YouTube video is borderline goofy, but it refers to a $200 thermal camera (from Thermal.com) which can [MORE]

Monitoring Sleep Apnea with a Smart Phone

Smartphone-app-for-Sleep-Apnea
Sleep apnea is nothing to snore over. It can be debilitating by itself, as well as indicating other issues like [MORE]

Expanded Telemed Coverage Under CMS

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Beginning this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will support telemedicine coverage for remote chronic care management, annual wellness [MORE]

Rite Aid’s Medical Kiosks

HealthSpot Telemedicine Kiosk
Telemedicine kiosks offer effective, efficient and equitable means for resolving most of the non-life-threatening medical conditions people commonly [MORE]

Mayo to Test Telehealth Kiosks

Telehealth Kiosks
The technology supporting stand-alone telehealth kiosks has existed for several years. Theoretically, they could be placed in hospital emergency [MORE]

Mobile Health Planning, Soup to Nuts

mHealth
Becker’s Hospital Review is a champ when it comes to taking a complex subject and organizing it in an easy-to-grasp [MORE]

How a Telmed Consult Works

Telemedicine Consultation
Will people be able to get an effective medical consultation for, say, a sinus infection, using only their smartphone?  [MORE]

Telepsychiatry Cuts Wait Times from Days to Hours

Mercy Health Telehealth Center
Psychiatrists are in the shortest supply of all medical doctors; and only Rhode Island has a sufficient [MORE]

Diagnostic Pills and Medication Hybrids

Proteus Sensor Enabled Pills
Diagnostic pills—some containing cameras, others with sensors—could serve many needs in healthcare, perhaps none more so than [MORE]

Medical Translators

Canopy Medical Translator
For several years, DARPA and IBM attempted to create a two-way medical translator that would allow doctor and [MORE]

Remote Medical Imaging with Ultrasound

AdEcho's Melody System
Since “Operation Lindbergh” in 2001, where a surgeon in New York using robots removed the gallbladder of a [MORE]

Stroke Map for Telemedicine

Stroke Map
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality [MORE]