VSee Update 220 – Better API, Preparing for Multi-login

This is an important update for VSee API users.  Regular VSee users will also want to update to prepare for the upcoming multi-login feature. Please make sure you have upgraded to Mac version: 2.2.3 (17627) Windows version: 14.0.0.220 iPad version: 2.4.3 (17642) iPhone version: 1.0.3 (17642) Special thanks to Eric, Kevin,…

VSee Joins Dell & Intermountain at HIMSS 2014 Health IT Conference

VSee will be exhibiting at the HIMSS 2014 Health IT Conference in Orlando, Florida all next week Feb. 23-27 in booth #5077.  You can also find us at HIMSS in the Dell Healthcare booth #5264 Hall C (where there will be daily drawings for a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet) and the Intermountain Healthcare booth…

VSee in Iraq – Kurdistan Medical Symposium (Day 1)

updated: 1/20/2014 VSee CEO Milton Chen and VSee Director of Telehealth Becky Wai traveled to Kurdistan, Iraq this week to participate in a week-long humanitarian surgical and medical outreach trip  sponsored by Operation Hope (OH), World Surgical Foundation (WSF), American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA), The American Kurdish Medical Group (AKMG) and Otorhinologic Research Institute (ORI).  The goal…

Intermountain Showcases VSee-Powered Tele-NICU at CES 2014

This year’s annual CES 2014 in Las Vegas saw  Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Lab showcasing their VSee-powered tele-NICU prototype. Using VSee secure video chat, a Mac mini, and 3 Logitech 920 webcams, Intermountain created a special telehealth system just for the NICU.  It allows both remote doctors and parents to check up on…

OpenTok Drops Free 1-on-1 Video Calls

It may be time to give VSee group video chat a whirl now that OpenTok (WebRTC version) 1-on-1 calls are no longer free.  Not only are VSee 1-on-1 calls always free, even group video calls are always free. OpenTok is now requiring everyone to pay at least 50 bucks a month…

VSee Update 109 for Windows – Support for Otocam 300

VSee for Windows now supports the medical device peripheral Aurical GN Otocam 300. Please update to version 14.0.0.109 Special thanks to Eric for this update! To see if you are on the latest version of VSee: Windows version 14.0.0.109  – Click the Help icon in the address book –>select “About VSee…” and see if…

VSee Telemedicine Exhibits At Special Ops Medical Conference

Join VSee at this year’s at the Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) Conference 2013, December 14-17 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, where attendees can refresh medical skills and learn about the latest techniques and technology for emergency and trauma situations – check out some of the key speakers here. VSee…

VSee for iPad Release 2.4 – New Annotation & Group Management

Special thanks to the VSee iOS team for the VSee for iPad 2.4 release new features!   What’s new: Annotate received app shares with free draw lines or typed text Manage groups in the address book Display network and other statistics Improved video quality for average and high bandwidth users…

VSee Exhibiting at mHealth Summit 2013

Don’t miss VSee this week, December 9-11, at the 5th Annual mHealth Summit, in booth #319, exhibit hall C.  With exciting past keynote speakers such as Bill Gates, first Chief Technology Officer of the U.S., Aneesh Chopra, and 18th Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, the mHealth Summit is a unique event the brings together…

VSee Update 1129 – Black Friday Fixes for Windows

Happy Black Friday! Please make sure your VSee is updated to the latest version for more call stability: Windows version 13.0.0.1129 Windows: Fixed call recovery problem in meetings after a crash. Fixed presence status for offline contacts after network reconnects Added ability to play chat alert through a chosen device…

VSee for iPhone Now Available in AppStore!

VSee for iPhone is here! Get your VSee iPhone app now – secure group video chat, screen share and text chat for telehealth and more!

Finding the SBR Health and VSee Link

Just for the record, while SBR Health (secure video-based solutions for the creation of virtual healthcare delivery networks) did come out of VSee (secure video conference + screen share for telehealth), they are two separate companies without any business ties.  I get asked about the relationship between SBR Health and VSee all the time…

VSee New Release 1111 – Video Recording Now on Mac!

Improved video quality, ability to add contacts to multiple groups, native VSee for Mac recording and more.  Please make sure you’re on the latest version of VSee to give yourself the best call experience: Windows version 13.0.0.1111 Mac version 2.2 (16814) Special thanks to John for fixing a critical crash on the VSee…

Former Polycom Designer Now Considers VSee Da Best!

Former designer of the Polycom RPX room system and video conferencing consultant, Bryan Hellard fell in love with Zoom.us during a period of testing and writing reviews of various software-based video conferencing apps. For him, Zoom.us was the best thing (in terms of video quality) that he had tested in a long…

VSee One of Top 5 Most Promising Startups at HealthTech 2013

VSee was chosen as one of the Top 5 Most Promising Health Companies out of all the exhibitors at this year’s HealthTech Conference 2013.  As a Top 5 company, we got to do an American Idol-style pitch to the audience with feedback from investors such as Psilos Group, West Health,…

Is Ringadoc Making a Mistake by Leaving Video e-Visit Consultations?

Ringadoc, a hot startup funded by the prestigious Founders Fund, began as a virtual doctor consultation platform and was actually selling video calling when it launched around September of 2011.  In  mid-May of 2013, Ringadoc injected another $700K to its coffers for a total of $1.9M in seed funding.  It…

VSee Customer Showin’ Some Love for Our “Tireless Energy”

An unexpected large UPS package showed up on our doorstep the other day. It was a stack of four Lou Malnati’s Chicago-style pizza pies. It turns out that one of our eVisit platform customers, Health As We Age (HAWA), has been so happy with our services and our flexibility in…

VSee for iPad New Release 2.3 – Bluetooth Headset Support

Now you can go wireless with new Bluetooth headset support on VSee for iPad! Update your VSee for iPad to version 2.3 (16599) for this feature and more: Added support for deleting chat/call history Added support for receiving annotations on app share from Mac Added support for Bluetooth headsets Updated audio…

VSee Telemedicine Plays Key Role in Global Humanitarian Relief

“I feel like Thomas Edison…we don’t know how something works, but we know 200 ways not to do something, and so far, VSee has proven to be the best tool on the field.” – Randy Roberson, Disaster Relief Specialist (Video link:  VSee in Action- HELP Telemedicine in Haiti) Fifteen years ago, a…

VSee New Release 1005 – Better Firewall Traversal

Get the latest version of VSee for even better audio quality!  Windows version 13.0.0.1005 Mac version 2.1 (16567) Mac & Windows Updated audio codec Reduced UDP probe traffic when behind some firewalls (correctly handles cases where “Automatically detect settings” is selected in Internet Options proxy settings) Windows only Added PTZ control buttons…