Alternative Therapy Gets Energy Boost from VSee Telehealth

Posted on May 16, 2013 by becky — No Comments ↓

Who would have thought that cutting edge technology and alternative healing could go hand in hand. At VSee we love it that unexpected use cases are always turning up with VSee’s simple group video chat tool. Recently, VSee was featured in the Repatterning Journal as a wonderful tool for the art of resonance repatterning – an alternative therapy to helping people live life more fully. Carolyn Winters, Repatterning Practitioner and Holographic Coach who has been using VSee to teach writes in the article Repatterning Journal article:

Our experience of Resonance Repatterning seminars online has been nothing short of amazing. I had the delightful experience of discussing this with an enthusiastic representative at VSee who explained the back story for the high frequency and coherence we are experiencing with this technology.

She adds on her own site:

A few of my coaching clients have also personally benefited from this technology as we have started to use face-to-face videoconferencing rather than Skype or the telephone. These sessions are so amazing because I can share the notes with you on the screen and if a modality requires a demonstration, easily show you what to do.

While it may seem an odd fit, Carolyn notes “Keeping pace with the new tools for learning and connecting, makes us better healers and recipients of healing. Knowing what is behind something new empowers us to use the tools that are effective.”

Check out her interview with me and Milton here.

Intermountain Healthcare using VSee for Neonatal ICU (NICU)

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Posted on May 15, 2013 by becky — No Comments ↓

At the recent American Telemedicine Association (ATA) conference in Austin, TX, Intermountain Healthcare gave an exciting demo of their innovative use of VSee for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Key to their setup was VSee’s ability to send multiple camera video streams at the same time. Legacy systems such as Vidyo, Polycom, and Cisco can only send 1 camera feed at a time.

Dr. Stephen Minton, Intermountain neonatologist and director of newborn services, gave a talk at ATA and showcased several powerful medical work flows for VSee NICU that he helped design. Intermountain’s 60-bed NICU renovation powered by VSee will be in operation in 3-4 months.

Dr. Minton, the remote specialist

3 HD camera views of the isolette

Doctor being directed in the resuscitation procedure

Three HD webcams are mounted on the isolette (for medical procedures) or warmer (holding crib) to show the baby from different angles and one webcam is aimed at the nurse/doctor for communicating with the remote neonatologist. The webcams are connected to a Mac mini and the entire setup is positioned such as to not take up space from working doctors and nurses.

Isolette setup using 3 Logitech 920 webcams, a Mac mini, & VSee

For high-risk babies that need specialist care, such as a resuscitation procedure, it’s no longer necessary to do a costly, time-consuming transfer from a local hospital to the hospital where the neonatologist is located. Instead, a neonatologist like Dr. Minton can easily extend his care to another hospital via VSee in a matter of seconds. Through live video streams coming from the different webcams, a seasoned specialist can direct a less experienced doctor in the procedure.

For anxious parents, the VSee telemedicine NICU can now offer them around the clock access to their infants. Parents often feel like they don’t have enough time to see their little ones during their NICU visits. Using VSee, parents and families can call in anytime to see their babies. They can even hold the iPad in their arms as though they are holding their babies and sleep with them in bed.

Finally, for busy doctors, These NICU beds can be set to auto-receive calls securely only from them so they can check in on a little patient at any time.

Learn more about VSee simple telehealth here.

VSee Telehealth Beats Vidyo, Polycom, Cisco at ATA

Posted on May 10, 2013 by anne — No Comments ↓

VSee was a smashing success at this past weekend’s ATA show in Austin, TX. With a truly innovative approach to video conferencing, VSee telehealth completely stole the show from Polycom, Cisco, and Vidyo. The excited crowds kept the VSee team so busy throughout the entire conference that the team barely had time to grab a bite to eat, crashing on the ATA exhibit hall couches at the end of the day.

During the conference, several speakers gave great talks about the impact of VSee telehealth on their work. Dr. Stephen Minton, Chief of Neonatology at Utah Valley Medical Center and Director of Newborn Services for Intermountain Healthcare demonstrated their innovative use of VSee for their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) renovation. Randy Robertson, disaster response and telemedicine specialist highlighted the importance VSee’s amazing low-bandwidth for his humanitarian relief work in developing countries.

VSee was also showcased in the booths of our partners, including InterMountain Healthcare (a 27-hospital network in Utah), CSI (a medical kiosk company), and Brighter Day Health (telepsychiatry and behavioral health).

InterMountain’s NICU using 3 Logitech 920 webcams, a Mac mini, and VSee

VSee telehealth Neonatal ICU (NICU)

The remote view of the NICU – note the camera placements for the 3 HD videos.

VSee’s software-only video conference is proving to be a perfect fit for telehealth. A simple, consumer-friendly video chat that requires no servers, works over spotty networks in rural areas, and streams faces and medical device images simultaneously, VSee is filling a gap in the telemedicine space for an easy medical video chat that lets doctors just be doctors without having to be IT.

CSI – medical kiosk

VSee captivating the ATA crowd

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MDLIVE Powered by VSee Signs On Cigna

Posted on May 8, 2013 by anne — No Comments ↓

MDLIVE a leading telehealth innovator has been tapped by Cigna, global health insurer with 78 million customer relationships, to provide round the clock healthcare access to its customers. Employers with Cigna’s self-insured health plans will have 24/7 online access to MDLIVE’s network of 2,300 board-certified internal medicine, family practice and pediatric physicians. Employees can see a doctor live over video consultations powered by VSee on an average of just 11 minutes. Here is a video demo of how an MDLIVE-VSee telehealth video chat consultation would work.

As Randy Parker, MDLIVE president and CEO notes in this mHIMSS article, the Cigna partnership closes the loop for millions of employees around the country who need immediate access to healthcare issues — colds, flu, rashes, sinus issues, headaches, etc. — that don’t need to be delivered in a doctor’s office, emergency room or urgent care clinic.

To complete a visit, electronic records of the MDLIVE telehealth visit are sent directly to the patient’s Cigna primary care physician in case follow-up care is needed.

Employees will also continue to have web access to their Cigna primary care doctors via McKesson’s RelayHealth platform, which has been in use since 2007. MDLIVE will be integrated directly into the MyCigna.com consumer platform, as well as be featured in Cigna’s new mobile app, which helps members locate and select physicians and urgent care centers.

What the MDLIVE partnership offers is another layer of healthcare accessibility through video consultations for Cigna customers.

Spokesperson Jackie Aube adds in a press release, “MDLIVE’s telehealth services enable our increasingly mobile and time-constrained customers to schedule a virtual consult with a board-certified physician and resolve a non-emergency medical issue in less than one hour. It’s a cost-effective and convenient alternative to an office visit with your primary care physician.”

VSee Brings Low Cost Telehealth Solution to BoP

Posted on May 7, 2013 by anne — No Comments ↓

VSee started as a simple desire to create a group video chat app that 1) didn’t drop calls and freeze video like Skype, that 2) protected privacy by not going through servers like Google Hangouts, and that 3) made collaboration extremely easy. The result was a simple low bandwidth video conference and fast screen share tool initially used only in niche circles like NASA and the Navy SEALs.

But the story doesn’t end there. It turns out VSee is also a favorite tool for social change and doing business with the billions represented by the BoP (Base of the Pyramid) model. It’s free group video chat uses a fraction of the bandwidth of Skype, Google Hangouts, Vidyo, and other video calling applications to get the same video quality and is amazingly easy for anyone to use. VSee has been especially appealing to those into global health care

Next Billion health care editor James Militzer shares his insights from an interview with Milton, VSee CEO:

“As soon as we launched the company, we noticed that we had a lot of activity in developing countries,” [Milton, VSee CEO] says. “Everybody there wants to use Skype, but because their bandwidth is not that great, they’re almost forced to use something else.”

Moreover, he noticed that many of VSee’s users were in the health care field. “Medical areas just started using this more and more, so we’ve been devoting more and more resources to telemedicine, combining VSee with some medical peripherals. We have projects in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Haiti, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal – right now, half of our company revenue comes from telemedicine. And it’s pretty much been through word of mouth.”

Source: Next Billion – The Accidental Social Enterprise

VSee is even more practical now with the release of its 5-way video chat and screen share app for iPad (also the first FDA-registered and HIPAA-compliant video chat telehealth tool for iPad). With the price of medical devices dropping, holding a VSee telehealth consultation can be as inexpensive as hooking up a $400 ultrasound probe to a mobile device.

Read the entire Next Billion article here - how VSee aims to be the medical video chat for the world.

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