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Amazon launch Amazon Care service offering Mobile Video Consults with Primary Care Physicians & Nurses

mHealth Insight

This isn’t the first experience they have of trying to run a healthcare service for employees as in 2013 at Zappos.com (a subsidiary since it was acquired in 2009) they launched TurnTable Health as a ‘next generation primary care clinic’ for staff next door to their huge office in downtown Las Vegas.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

" An mHealth Intelligence article notes, "Real-time telehealth provides timely care, especially in emergencies or urgent situations, and maintains the concept of the doctor-patient relationship by enabling a face-to-face analysis and treatment. ."

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

care innovations

The VA Mission Act , which gives eligible VA providers the power to treat patients who live in other states , granting a certain level of immunity for state-imposed sanctions on care interactions crossing state lines (as they often do with virtual visits). Interested in following the VA’s path to operational success?

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The 5 minute download on the NYeC Conference 2013

American Well

Here we are on the cusp of 2014, the golden age of instant global communication- it seems there is literally nothing you cannot find on the internet- and yet, there is a tremendous deficit in the field of healthcare informatics. Neither will her physician.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): June 2015

American Well

“This allows providers to use telemedicine technology to improve the cost and quality of healthcare delivery.” Healthcare Informatics. As a patient of Franciscan Health System’s primary care clinic in Port Orchard, Soderberg learned about an alternative option: virtual urgent care, at the cost of $35.

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“Apple announces effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”

mHealth Insight

At scale Apple should start supporting the training of Medics so that they can help the Patients and Carers who they have now empowered with information ( plenty of tips about that in the mHealth for Healthcare Professionals course that I developed for the Healthcare Informatics Society ). In this talk I gave at Doctors 2.0

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