Telehealth and Santa Claus
Salt Lake City-based Shriners Hospitals for Children is implementing a new telehealth system. To test it, the hospital invited visitors to participate. Instead of a physician being on the other end of a telehealth connection, it was Santa Claus. I am sure the children loved it. Shriners plans to deploy the telehealth system for orthopedics. […]
Telehealth for Medicare
A bipartisan bill is advancing in the Senate to enable Medicare to fund expanded telehealth for rural areas. The Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act sounds like a good thing. I have two reservations. First is bureaucracy. The bill would allow The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to test telehealth services of a hospital through […]
Telehealth is Hot. Teledoc Hits One Million.
Telehealth is really catching on. The nation’s largest telehealth platform, Teladoc, has facilitated its one millionth electronic visit between a physician and a patient. Teladoc doctors are practicing physicians licensed in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, dermatology, or behavioral health. Their credentials are reviewed every 3 years. Teladoc doctors are just like regular primary care physicians or […]
How Mobile Health Will Change Patient Provider Relationships
Healthcare Consultants Forum Online Newsletter – Quarter 4, 2015 Author: John R. Patrick, DHA President Attitude LLC Palm Coast, Fla. Consumers are taking more responsibility for their health and seeking to collaborate with their physicians. Mobile health apps and devices, in combination with cloud computing, will play a major role in empowering consumers. Mobile devices […]
iPhone 6S Plus Tracking
UPS tracking shows the iPhone 6S Plus is in Brookfield, Connecticut after arriving from Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Before that the iPhone was in Louisville, KY. Before that the iphone was in Anchorage, Alaska, where it arrived from Taoyuan, Taiwan having come from Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. The origination of the shipment was in Shenzhen, China. I […]