Attention all healthcare thought leaders, innovators, payors, physicians, policymakers, and investors! Mark your calendars for the 2nd Telehealth Failures & Secrets To Success conference, Sep. 20-22! If telehealth has really reached its tipping point, digital health investment is on its way to another record-breaking year, and Congress is pushing more telehealth bills, then why…
Science of Video Collaboration
You can conduct a telemedicine consultation over any kind of internet connection. For patients in remote areas with no connectivity, satellite internet is the answer. The VSee team relied on satellite internet when we deployed telemedicine to refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. Watch this video to learn more about how satellite internet works.…
WebRTC and the promise of video calls right from your web browser has captivated the media and businesses over the past few years. So it’s not unusual for us to get questions about how VSee compares with WebRTC video. Recently, we got this interesting question from a customer: From your expertise,…
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…
Would you consider using an office robot to telecommute? -WSJ poll I’m a definite “yes”! As a remote worker, I know that getting in face time and making myself seem “real” and personable to coworkers is crucial. In fact, studies show that workers who put in less “face time” are less likely…
“So how is VSee different from Skype?” This is one of the most commonly asked questions we get at VSee. It’s one of those things that’s hard to explain unless you’ve seen VSee in action. I like how E27’s Joanna Yeo says it in her recent VSee article: VSee…
In another video job interview tips post , we went over 6 bloopers in video presentation and environment control. Today, we’ll talk about 6 technical/equipment pitfalls to avoid in your upcoming video conference interview. Video calling is still relatively new, and people sometimes don’t have enough experience using video conferencing…
While videoconferencing carts (H.323 standard definition) are supposed to be portable and easy to use, this isn’t necessarily the case. It becomes quite an inconvenience if the unit regularly needs to be set up in a room that is off its network, like the interpretation office of this study. The…
Summary: VSee user Dr. Russell E. Brown shares how VSee has helped him successfully practice telepsychiatry. Last week I got to speak with neurologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Russell E. Brown from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the Program Director of Avenia Behavioral Management and works with elderly patients suffering from such issues…
Summary: Mirror neurons may be the key to explaining why it’s so important to see people for social interactions. With the remote work revolution seriously getting underway, a recent article from Knowledge @ Wharton Today reminds us that remote workers may be losing more knowledge than we know from the…
There are many historical time lines of videoconferencing on the Internet. A nice one is from an earlier post on this very blog. Most of these histories identify the AT&T ikonophone as the first working video phone. Although a milestone in its own right, it was not the first videophone…
In a study of virtual teams, Stanford management science professor Pamela Hinds found that 6 months after virtual team members participated in an intense week-long team building retreat there was zero correlation to their ability to work together. Hinds believes that in order to increase a group’s relational coordination or ability to…
Last September, Frost & Sullivan came up with a new way to measure the “collaborativeness” of visual collaboration technology. It looks like a plug for Magor Telecollaboration dressed in pseudo-scientific language to me; but, it does suggest a quantitative way of analyzing whether a collaborative product is worth its return…
Over the last few weeks of working at VSee, I’ve been realizing that VSee is more than just a videoconferencing tool. It’s a video collaboration tool. Of course, it can do the things that videoconferencing does, but on a much more dynamic and work-friendly scale. It’s the difference between a…
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently had an article by Professors Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi titled “Effective Managers Say the Same Thing Twice (Or More).” We put this principle into action all the time in our personal lives, like repeatedly telling your child to look both ways before crossing…
Maybe it’s the $4 per gallon gas prices or perhaps people are tired of traveling 6-8 hours for one 45-minute meeting. Maybe it’s the advances in networking technologies and services or the pricking of our environmental consciences. Maybe it’s because the world really is a global village today or because…
It’s no big secret that virtual teams need to meet face-to-face. As mentioned in an earlier post, a study completed by Dubé and Robey found that the most prevalent contradiction or tension in virtual teams is the necessity for face-to-face presence. There’s something important about corporeality that allows us to…
If we’re talking purely about their goals and functions…nothing, really. Like all other teams they are formed to solve a problem, do a project, perform a service, or come up with some answers. What makes them so special is that they are able to pool together talent and expertise from…
