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…
VSee was recently featured by the Hot Spots Movement, a specialist research and consulting team that focuses on building collaborative capability for their clients, and on future-proofing organisations. They are also the brains behind the Future of Work Research Consortium, which gathers thought leaders and innovators around the world to share models, insights, solutions and…
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…
Get a live demo of VSee Telehealth today in booth #712 at the ATA 2013 Meeting for Telemedicine, Telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, running May 5-7. 1. VSee Telehealth offers simple, secure video chat with EHR-sharing and medical device streaming that anyone can use. 2. VSee’s signature low-bandwidth video conference provides HD…
According to Mercom Capital Group, the number of health IT-related venture capital funding deals from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013 is up 350%, from 30 health IT-related venture capital funding deals to 104 deals. In fact, most of that growth happened only this year with Q4 2012 reporting 51 health IT-related…
Unlike most video conference services, VSee gives you tons of control over how you want to display your video windows. Click on the icon with the four tiles in the top right corner of your video window for the “Arrange Video Windows” menu (pictured above). Better yet, try these easy…
Telemedicine has long been touted as a means of making healthcare more accessible and cost-effective. However, forces have never really come together to make it happen on a large scale. This year things may be changing. Here are 5 disruptive trends Sande Olson, healthcare marketing communications and business development executive, says are bringing things to…
HIPAA Privacy Rule protections now give you the right to restrict what health treatment information gets sent to your health plan if you’ve paid for the treatment yourself. Sounds great in theory, but are physicians and hospitals ready to put this policy into practice? Modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and…
Out-of-luck actors may now have an unexpected source of gainful employment – with video conferencing companies. According to this Wall Street Journal story, VSee’s arch rival, Vidyo keeps professional actors on staff. We’re not talking about hiring actors for a one time stint to film a couple of slick ads,…
Guest Post by Sankalp Garud – a 16-year-old problem solver, math whiz, online learning evangelist and entrepreneur. You can watch his educational videos on http://YouTube.com/tapthetech I’m glad I can write this post at a time when the education system seems to be in a transition phase. With the development of great free online…
The bars on the bottom right of a caller’s video window show you the strength of the network or connection between you and the caller. Green ♦(strong) – great audio and video Yellow ♦ (medium) – possibility of some audio and video interruptions Red ♦ (weak) – likely to have audio and…
With the updated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Final Rule going into effect starting next week, March 26, 2013, health care entities and health vendors will want to start looking into the way they manage patients’ protected health information, so they don’t get hit with a nasty fine. The final…
Google+ Hangouts is trying to be more bandwidth-friendly with its new bandwidth slider and audio-only features. This is welcome news for those on 3G, Wifi, DSL, or otherwise slow Internet who have had a hard time jumping into a Hangout. In particular, bandwidth limitations can be a problem for people…
Skype is not the tool for telehealth and telemedicine where HIPAA compliancy is a concern or any application where you care about security. Skype has always been close about whether it keeps decryption keys and Skype security and privacy concerns have grown since its 2011 Microsoft acquisition. In a recent…
VSee allows you to record the individual speakers’ videos when in a call. Just go to your VSee address book and select Tools–>Record, give the video files a name, and you’re good to go. Files are saved to your local disk so there is no need to worry about recording…
In the developing world burns are common as most people cook over fires. Clothing catches on fire, hot oil gets spilled and lives are forever changed or often even lost. Over the holidays our friend Randy Roberson from Disaster Logistics Relief (DLR) shared with us how VSee telemedicine has been…
VSee spent last weekend showcasing its low-bandwidth secure telemedicine capabilities at the Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) Symposium. The audience was amazed at VSee’s extreme low-bandwidth capabilities which used less than half the bandwidth of Skype, Vidyo, and OpenTok. They were even more excited when they saw how simply VSee integrates…
Updated: 4/14/2014 With an aging population, the anticipated explosion of Obamacare patients, and an expected shortage of doctors, telemedicine and online health care could be the innovation that will save health care. Through telemedicine, patients can have easy virtual visits with a doctor via emails, phone, video, or other devices.…
Video link: Worksnug interview – Milton on Video Conferencing Productivity Check out Worksnug community manager San Sharma‘s interview of VSee CEO, Milton Chen. In 20 minutes they packed in everything from why Cisco WebEx is great for sales presentations, but bad for virtual teams how a 1 second delay in clicking can mean…
VSee will be showing its extreme telemedicine capabilities at the 2012 Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) Symposium and Exhibition, December 15-18 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, in booth 800. VSee Telemedicine requires less than half than bandwidth of Skype, Vidyo, and OpenTok, and is field-hardened for the most limited networks.…
