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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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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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United in Technology for Aging
Revenues for technology and services for digital health services and associated aging in place is expected to triple by 2015, according to the latest research from Parks Associates. “The digital health industry has many subsectors, and near-term growth will be uneven across these segments,” said Harry Wang, director of Parks Associates’ health research team. "Adoption…
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The Modern Housecall
Bringing the doctor to the home via communications and connected medical devices is the theme of this brief interview with Rob Scheschareg of MedConcierge, LLC. Scheschareg believes that demand for this type of service will increase if current health care trends continue. He thinks there are opportunities for Communications Service Providers to bundle remote health…
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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…
