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24 Hour Patient Care
Broadband enables around the clock patient care, regardless of where the customer is. In this interview, filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit, Nancy Green, Managing Principal Virtual Care / Telemedicine of the Verizon Connected Healthcare Practice, explains how technologies coupled with broadband are enabling patients to receive care from virtually anywhere.
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Keeping People Healthy at Home
The video interview above, Kian Saneii of Independa, illustrates a cloud-based system that helps a person stay in their home, even as they age or fight long-term health issues. Through sensors and two-way communications, the health care giver can be remote, but with a 24-hour virtual presence. This approach of substituting technology and communications promises a…
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Mobile – Enabling the Virtual Doctor Visit
Healthcare is going mobile, according to Nancy Green of Verizon. In this video interview at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Green mentions the various types of health care applications that benefit from the addition of a mobile connection; whether that mobile connection is on the patient or provider side. The importance of meeting HIPPA requirements as…
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Bluetooth Helping to Flatten the Medical Profession
At the MTA 2010 Convention, we reported on a Bluetooth enabled stethoscope. This sort of peripheral could be very useful for rural telemedicine applications and would be a natural fit for devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. The two-way nature of it, allows prompting for the health care provider and the digitization of…
