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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

In particular, Teladoc Health uses telephone and videoconferencing software as well as mobile apps to provide on-demand remote medical care. Teladoc was founded in 2002 in Dallas, Texas by G. These devices collect data about the user's health, which is then sent to Livongo's platform.

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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

It may be a good while before we reach pre-cognitive techniques to ward off disease and accidents, but virtual reality is forging radical recalibrations of everything from drug discovery to bedside care in both the home and the hospital setting. Some of the recent deals underscore the importance of virtual care in the pharmaceutical industry.’