Taylor Engineering has been using VSee for years to keep its remote team members happy and productive. It’s been a great alternative to WebEx and GoToMeeting. There is just something about the being able to see people’s faces that really “breaks down barriers” and “improves communication compared to the phone”…

Telemedicine Increases Hospital Revenue | Infographics   A new study published by University of California-Davis researchers shows that In a competitive health care region with more than one children’s hospital, deploying pediatric telemedicine services to referring hospitals resulted in an increased market share and an increased number of transfers, hospital revenue…

VSee team meets with the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba to talk telemedicine The VSee team had an amazing experience at the Albert Schweitzer Centennial Symposium sharing the possibilities of telehealth in Africa (and around the world) with the President of Gabon, Nobel Prize winners, and other renowned leaders of…

When Ali Heller’s son, Julius, first started speaking, she noticed he had some trouble with stuttering. Family and friends told her not to worry about it and that he would grow out of it. However, at 3 years old, his stuttering had not gone away, moreover, it was beginning to…

It’s been an exciting week for the VSee team in Africa. Milton and Becky have been schlepping around Rwanda, speaking at the ultra modern kLab in Kigali, Rwanda’s up and coming Silicon-Valley-in-a-building.   Meanwhile, Eric has been at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon doing VSee telemedicine kit trainings and connecting Harvard medical doctors…

Eric has had a crazy and amazing week bringing the VSee telemedicine suitcase into the jungles of Gabon. He has been setting up VSee satellite calls to bring Harvard doctors and Albert Schweitzer Hospital doctors face to face virtually for telehealth consultations.  And he has been training medical staff to use the VSee telemedicine…

Virtual teams are a very different breed of animal from traditional office teams. So it stands to reason that creating a virtual team with the same level of rapport and efficacy requires different measures or as iDoneThis CEO Walter Chen believes, it requires “extreme measures.” Here are his 4 extreme habits (via Jeff…

The VSee team has been in Africa this past week bringing VSee simple, low-bandwidth telehealth to various groups. Yesterday they were in Rwanda where VSee CEO, Milton, was invited to share his expertise at kLab, a one-of-a-kind tech innovation hub located in the capital city of Kigali. kLab is the…

Google recently unveiled its secret, ambitious Project Loon — a visionary project, involving the launch of an armada of “Internet balloons” to bring cheap Internet access to people all over the world. Even as online resources and communications become an increasingly critical way to get healthcare, education, jobs and business opportunities, two-thirds of…

The BART strike hit Bay Area’s 400K daily commuters this morning with a slap in the face. Oakland ferry lines were stretching around the corner and the Bay Bridge has been backed up since 5:30 a.m. KTVU-TV’s @sal_castaneda tweets: In 1997 [the last BART strike] most people couldn’t work from…

VSee is looking for a few good C++ devs to bring the VSee Android app to life. If you’ve got C++ chops, and you love working with Android NDK, come check us out. Experience with multi-threaded programming and graphics manipulation on NDK a must; bonus if you know Swig, Boost and have experience…

Chris Stegh was right on when he wrote in this post about video telemedicine that “the race is on to perfect easy-to-use video tools.” One reason he says more video telemedicine isn’t being used is because traditional room conferencing solutions like Polycom, Cisco Tandberg, etc. have been difficult to use. It’s…

VSee is one of 15 companies chosen to be a part of this year’s In-Radar Tech Startup Showcase at the TATA Innovation Forum 2013 in Santa Clara. The Innovation Forum brings together some of the best and brightest minds from renowned companies, academia, and innovative startups in North America for an…

Pexip, a new video conferencing venture is joining market disruptors like Vidyo, Blue Jeans, and VSee 🙂 with its software-based (cloud) Infinity video conference offering. Led by former top Cisco Tandberg execs and developers, Pexip promises to make it possible to connect to any video conference system on any device…

To delete a contact from your VSee address book, move the cursor arrow over the contact’s name until it is highlighted and right-click. Select “Delete Contact” from the menu that appears.  In fact, you can delete an entire group in the same way, by simply right-clicking on the highlighted group. * Note:…

Special thanks to John for multi-language support on group chat. Please check to make sure your VSee is updated to Windows version 13.0.0.530 Mac version 21.1 (15770) Mac and Windows: Fixes for non-English language bugs in VSee API 3.0 Windows: Multi-language support in group chat Mac: Fixes for crashes on…

Your VSee status tells other people how available you are for a video chat. VSee has four possible status indicators: green with white clock hands – Online but inactive at least 5 min. green – Available red – In a call white – Offline or invisible You can purposely change…

Skype telemedicine users, here’s more bad news for you when it comes to Skype privacy. The H Security team recently found evidence that Microsoft does make use of their Skype security policies to read users’ text chats.  As they put it “Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company…

Yesterday, VSee treated a group of Poland’s brightest scientists, researchers, and professors to a taste of innovation and entrepreneurship in action as part of an innovator’s training program. VSee was one of approximately 10 companies the group will be visiting, including established names such as Polycom, IDEO, Google to startups…

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…