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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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Telehealth Care Opportunities & Challenges for Rural Operators
Mark Cornett, COO of Fused Solutions, LLC & Rachel Murtrux, Director of the Missouri Telehealth Network, discuss some of the challenges extending tele-healthcare to rural areas. This was filmed at the 2011 IP Possiblities Conference.
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Looking Forward, While Staying Customer Focused
Independent telecommunications companies are typically the technology leaders of their communities. They have to know what is coming in technology, while, at the same time, providing their customers with great service for what is needed today. By bringing broadband to the so-called last mile, they literally connect their rural communities to the World Wide Web.…
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Exciting Time in the Telemedicine/Telehealth Industry
“This is a very exciting next 5 years for the telemedicine/telehealth industry,” says Harry Wang of Parks Associates, in this video interview from the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Wang says that a number of factors are in play to help overcome consumer inertia to widespread adoption of telemedicine. Ubiquitous wireline and wireless broadband and devices…
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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…
