The Mayo Clinic and Telemedicine: Video Conferencing Is Reducing ICU Mortalities
Patients at the Mayo Clinic’s network of Intensive Care Units now have an extra pair of expert eyes watching over them as they recover. The world-renowned research and treatment facility has built...
Prepare for the Future of Teledentistry: Would You Get Your Teeth Checked Online?
Home dentistry does not sound pleasant. Or like a wise idea. In fact, I’m pretty sure the term is used as an insult. If you took the DIY and Marathon Man overtones...
For Worn-Out New Moms, Video Conferencing Provides On-Demand Breastfeeding Support
It’s one of the most natural and nurturing images we can conjure of the human experience. A mother cradling a breastfeeding baby. But there’s a lot of work that goes into making so...
The Future of Emergency Medicine Is In-Ambulance Video Calling Links
You probably won’t know it when it happens, but in the future an iPad could save your life. You won’t know it because you’ll be in the back of an ambulance, maybe...
A Virtual HIV Clinic Could Be the Precursor to Anonymous Online STD Testing
In the privacy of your own home. It’s a simple phrase with a powerful motivation built into it. There’s safety and comfort at home--it’s our own personal world. So, would you be...
Telehealth Physical Therapy Crosses Personal Training with a Virtual Doctor
The long process of getting back to the life you once knew after an accident can be as painful as the accident itself. I know, because I recently broke a finger, and...
On-Demand Video Conferencing with Nurses Would Ease the Burden on Emergency Rooms
These numbers will make you feel ill. More than 136 million people attended an American medical emergency department in a single year, according to the most recent count available from the Centers...
Video Conferencing in Nursing Education Now Includes Telepresence Robots
She has a kind face, warm smile, and a reassuring voice. She’s knowledgeable, and she makes you feel like everything is under control. But your telepresence nurse of the future is...
Video Conferencing Lets Young Doctors in Pakistan Watch Live Surgeries a World Away
If you’re older than 30 you’re among the last generation to be impressed with the internet. You didn’t grow up Googling information for class projects in elementary school. You couldn’t instantly download...
Telemedicine and Texas: How New Legislation Will Bring Life Saving Services to Remote Communities
Millions of Texans now have the ability to instantly transport themselves hundreds of miles across the state to seek specialist medical treatment. On May 30th this year Governor Greg Abbott signed off...
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The Webaround Webcam Background Screen Is a Handy But Limited Digital...
My favorite urban myth involves NASA and a multi-million-dollar space pen. The myth contends that while the U.S. space program in the 1960s spent millions...
