Last week ended on a high note for telemedicine advocates with CMS adding 7 new codes to the Medicare telemedicine billing schedule that will be reimbursed for 2015. The new services include: psychotherapy prolonged office visits annual wellness visit and related matters remote chronic care management remote patient monitoring The proposed CMS physician fee schedule also included…
Dell World 2014 got off to a great start yesterday. VSee CEO Milton Chen was at the Executive Summit Healthcare Leadership Forum speaking about how healthcare will be impacted by the 28 billion “things” that will be connected to the Internet by 2020. If you missed yesterday’s discussion, Milton will be joining…
VSee headed out to ACEP14 conference ready to show emergency physicians how easy it was to do telemedicine with VSee’s simple OneClick Waiting Room and Medical Cloud Office. We were surprised to find that very few emergency medicine physicians at ACEP were interested in doing telemedicine. Despite recent HRSA grants for tele-emergency…
photo courtesy UNM Center for Telehealth Georgia O’ Keefe’s stark New Mexico landscapes makes it easy to see why this largely rural state is the ideal place for telemedicine to take root. In fact, the University of New Mexico (UNM) has been the cradle of the very successful Project ECHO video telemedicine…
Teladoc, one of the biggest telemedicine services around, recently closed a gratifying 50M in Series F funding for a total of 96.6M in venture capital. According to Venturebeat this is one of the largest raises for the digital health space this year. Hot competitor, Doctor on Demand, which offers a…
Join VSee (booth #200) September 7-9 at the ATA Fall Forum 2014 along with other experts and academics to discuss best practices for using telehealth in chronic care management, as well as a full day on telemedicine opportunities in China and how to deploy telemedicine abroad. Nearly 75% of US healthcare spending goes…
The WorkWell Medical Group has turned a used bus into a new mobile health clinic so they can take their urgent care services on the road. The urgent care center is based in the Salinas California immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novels and is located in a still a largely agricultural…
VSee HIPAA compliant group video chat for telemedicine is being used for a new online support group for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Unlike Skype and Google Hangouts, VSee’s peer-to-peer video chat and screen share is encrypted from end-to-end where VSee has no access to any data transmitted between callers.…
VSee-powered Click It Clinic was recently featured on KHOU 11 Great Day Houston‘s Medical Monday. Click It Clinic is one of a growing breed of online healthcare services providing convenient primary care virtual doctor visits right in your home. Founded by CEO Dr. Latisha Rowe, Click It Clinic was designed take advantage of new virtual medicine…
For Mac users experiencing chat-related crash issues, please update your VSee to Mac version 2.6.1 (18992) Changes: Fixed crashes related to chat on older OS X systems – 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8
This newest version of VSee brings you an improved audio experience with better echo cancellation. Please update your VSee to the following versions: Windows version 14.0.0.808 (18979) Mac version 2.6 (18983) iPad and iPhone (not yet released) ** Note: If you are running a version of VSee that is: Windows version…
Who pays for telemedicine? As a health provider, just because you appear on a screen rather than in-person doesn’t make your expertise any less valuable. It makes sense to expect Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers to reimburse you for your work. Fortunately, the rules for telemedicine reimbursement are changing these…
photo credit: HealthTap HealthTap, best known for its online health question and answer knowledge base curated by real doctors, is looking to join the ranks of real-time virtual doctor visit platforms such as MDLIVE, American Well, Teladoc, and Doctor on Demand. Actually, it’s looking to outrank these virtual health platforms to become the Amazon…
Medicare is getting another chance at expanding its telehealth coverage. Representative Mike Thompson from California has written a new Medicare Telehealth Parity Act of 2014 which would dramatically expand Medicare reimbursement for many more kinds of telemedicine. Most states tend follow Medicare’s lead when setting their Medicaid policies and determining what private insurers must cover.…
We’re excited to announce the a new update of VSee OneClick Waiting Room to version 3.2.0. OneClick change list: [New] Providers can now send webchats to patients from the Provider dashboard [New] Patients can get back into the waiting room if she accidentally refreshes the page [Enhancement] Patient intake form…
Vidyo, VSee competitor, just raised another $20M to bring their total funding to $139M — well ahead of the typical $40M needed to reach IPO stage. With 300 employees and a monthly burn rate of probably ~$4M, Vidyo’s $20M fundraising at this stage of the game is rather unconventional – companies positioning for IPO normally…
Video chat visits with your doctor are no longer a thing of the future. A growing number of telehealth platforms like MDLIVE, American Well, Teladoc, and Doctor on Demand are offering online video consultations with a doctor anytime. As a health provider wanting to get a start on telehealth in…
Important bug fix for VSee on Windows. Please update to Windows version 14.0.0.709 (18766) Changes: Fixed bug where a deadlock on startup happens sometimes on API call. To see if you are on the latest version of VSee Windows version 14.0.0.709 (18766) – Click the Help icon in the address book –>select…
Please note below version number updates as of July 5, 2014. Giving our users the best quality video is always a top priority at VSee. This latest version of VSee has tuned up our automatic quality control to give you better than ever video quality. Please make sure your VSee has…
Please update your VSee Android app to latest version: 1.0.1 (18663) What’s new: API bug-fix where a non-http URI is handled improperly.
